How God Acts

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ISBN: 9780800697006 | 0800697006
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Copyright: 2/1/2010

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How does the Christian doctrine of creation square with the picture of an evolving universe we receive from science today? How do the baldly predatory behavior and wasteful extinction of whole species fit in a Christian understanding? How does miraculous divine action, pictured so vividly in the biblical narratives, square with the inexorable march of the laws of physics? How does a God of love permit so much death and destruction?

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Characteristics of the Universe Revealed by the Sciences	p. 1
A Universe That Evolves at All Levels	p. 2
A Universe Constituted by Patterns of Relationship	p. 5
A Universe Where Natural Processes Have Their Own Integrity	p. 7
A Directional Universe	p. 8
The Costs of Evolution	p. 11
Divine Action in the Christ-Event	p. 15
Jesus' Vision of Divine Action: The Reign of God	p. 15
Parables of Divine Action	p. 16
Healing	p. 18
The Open Table	p. 20
The Community of Disciples	p. 21
Divine Action for Jesus	p. 24
Divine Action in the Light of the Whole Christ-Event	p. 25
God Who Lovingly Waits upon Creation	p. 26
The Vulnerability of Divine Love	p. 30
Creation as Divine Self-Bestowal	p. 35
The Specific and Historical Character of Divine Acts	p. 36
Creation as the Self-Bestowal of God	p. 39
Enabling and Empowering Evolutionary Emergence	p. 43
Noninterventionist Divine Action	p. 45
Enabling Creaturely Autonomy to Flourish	p. 47
Divine Action That Accepts the Limits of Creaturely Processes	p. 50
Creating through Chance and Lawfulness	p. 52
Special Divine Acts	p. 57
Special Acts in the Providential Guidance of Creation	p. 58
Approaches to Special Divine Acts	p. 59
Divine Action through Secondary Causes	p. 62
God's Special Acts in Evolutionary Emergence	p. 64
The Dynamism and the Creaturely Limits of Special Divine Acts	p. 65
Special Divine Acts in the Life of Grace	p. 66
Experiences of the Holy Spirit	p. 67
Personal Providence	p. 68
Disruptive Grace	p. 71
Special Divine Acts in the History of Salvation	p. 72
Mediation by Created Realities	p. 72
Sacramental Structure of Special Divine Acts	p. 74
Conclusion	p. 75
Miracles and the Laws of Nature	p. 77
The Miracles of Jesus	p. 78
Aquinas on the Dignity of Secondary Causes	p. 80
The Laws of Nature	p. 84
A Theological Approach	p. 87
The Divine Act of Resurrection	p. 91
Resurrection: A Free Act of God from within Creation
That Gives Creation Its Deepest Meaning	p. 92
Central Expression of God's Act of Self-Bestowal	p. 92
Evolutionary Christology	p. 94
Sacrament of Salvation	p. 95
Resurrection as Ontological Transformation	p. 96
Resurrection Expressed in Creation through Secondary Causes	p. 99
Experience of the Risen Christ in the Christian Community Today	p. 101
The Easter Appearances	p. 102
The Eschatological Transformation of Creation	p. 104
God's Redeeming Act: Deifying Transformation	p. 107
Redemption and Deification through Incarnation: Athanasius	p. 109
The God-Creation Relationship	p. 109
The Central Place of Christ's Death and Resurrection	p. 113
Deification in Christ	p. 114
Exploring a Theology of Redemption as Deifying Transformation	p. 118
The Deifying Transformation of Human Beings	p. 119
The Deifying Transformation of the Material Universe	p. 121
The Deifying Transformation of the Biological World	p. 124
A Participatory Theology of Redemption	p. 126
God's Redeeming Act: Evolution, Original Sin, and the Lamb of God	p. 129
The Scapegoat Mechanism	p. 129
Evolutionary Science on Human Emergence	p. 131
Original Grace and Original Sin in Evolutionary History	p. 134
The End of Scapegoating and the Beginning of New Creation	p. 138
Final Fulfillment: The Deifying Transformation of Creation	p. 143
We Hope for What We Do Not See: God as Absolute Future	p. 144
Hope for the Whole Creation in the New Testament: Romans 8:18-25	p. 146
Hope for the Universe in Patristic Tradition: Maximus the Confessor	p. 150
The Deification of the Universe: Karl Rahner	p. 152
The Deification of Matter	p. 153
Radical Transformation	p. 155
Real Continuity	p. 157
Hope for the Animals	p. 159
Prayers of Intercession	p. 167
God Wants Our Participation	p. 168
Sharing What Matters with the Beloved	p. 170
Entrusting Ourselves to God	p. 173
Prayer as Desire for God	p. 175
Conclusion	p. 178
Notes	p. 181
Index	p. 203
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