The Emergent Christ

by Delio, Ilia

• ISBN13: 9781570759086
• ISBN10: 1570759081
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Author Biography

Ilia Delio, O.S.F., is senior fellow in science and religion at Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. She is the winner of the 2000 Templeton Course Award in Science and Religion and the author of several books including Christ in Evolution.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Book of Creation	p. 13
The New Cosmos Story	p. 13
The Evolution of Humans	p. 18
The Gift of Evolution	p. 21
The Strange Quantum World	p. 24
Undivided Wholeness	p. 27
The Evolution of God	p. 32
The Problem of Change	p. 34
The Dynamic Love of God: Bonaventure and Meister Eckhart	p. 36
The Emergent God	p. 40
God: Noun or Verb?	p. 42
Creative Union	p. 45
Evolution and Creative Union	p. 46
Christ the Evolver	p. 49
Evolution and Incarnation	p. 52
Jesus and the Power of Newness	p. 54
God's Creative Aim	p. 57
Jesus the Whole-Maker	p. 59
Was Jesus Catholic?	p. 62
The Dynamic of Whole-Making	p. 64
Whole-Making and Costly Love	p. 66
A Catholic Universe?	p. 69
Resurrection and Transformation	p. 72
Empowered New Life	p. 72
Resurrection and Evolution	p. 75
Transcendent in Love	p. 77
Release into Wholeness	p. 79
Matter and Spirit	p. 81
The Risen Body of Christ and Heaven	p. 85
Toward Cosmic Wholeness	p. 88
Christ the New Being	p. 90
Trans-humanism and the Desire for Control	p. 92
Sacramental Evolution	p. 98
Can the Church Evolve?	p. 102
Evolution and Christianity	p. 105
The Rebirth of Christian Life	p. 109
Whole-Making and Whole-Breaking	p. 113
The Inner Universe	p. 118
The Death of Jesus	p. 119
Poverty of Being	p. 124
The Journey into God	p. 127
Contemplation	p. 129
Inner Wisdom	p. 130
A New Birth of Christ Within	p. 135
Christ the Living One	p. 138
Christ die Strange Atrractor	p. 142
The Role of Christians	p. 146
A Consciousness of Evolution	p. 148
Liberated in Love	p. 149
Christianity Is a Religion of the Future	p. 150
Conclusion	p. 152
Notes	p. 157
Glossary	p. 181
Selected Bibliography	p. 185
Index	p. 189
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