How God acts : creation, redemption, and special divine action /
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis [Minn.] :
Fortress Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Theology and the sciences.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by William R. Stoeger
- Introduction
- Characteristics of the universe revealed by the sciences
- A universe that evolves at all levels
- A universe constituted by patterns of relationship
- A universe where natural processes have their own integrity
- A directional universe
- The cost of evolution
- Divine action in the Christ-event
- Jesus' vision of divine action : the reign of God
- Parables of divine action
- Healing
- The open table
- The community of disciples
- Divine action for Jesus
- Divine action in the light of the whole Christ-event
- God who lovingly waits upon creation
- The vulnerability of divine love
- Creation as divine self-bestowal
- The specific and historical character of divine acts
- Creation as the self-bestowal of God
- Enabling and empowering evolutionary emergence
- Noninterventionist divine action
- Enabling creaturely autonomy to flourish
- Divine action that accepts the limits of creaturely processes
- Creating through chance and lawfulness
- Special divine acts
- Special acts in the providential guidance of creation
- Approaches to special divine acts
- Divine action through secondary causes
- God's special acts in evolutionary emergence
- The dynamism and the creaturely limits of special divine acts
- Special divine acts in the life of grace
- Experiences of the Holy Spirit
- Personal providence
- Disruptive grace
- Special divine acts in the history of salvation
- Mediation by created realities
- Sacramental structure of special divine acts
- Miracles and the laws of nature
- The miracles of Jesus
- Aquinas on the dignity of secondary causes
- The laws of nature
- A theological approach
- The divine act of resurrection
- Resurrection : a free act of God from within creation that gives creation its deepest meaning
- Central expression of God's act of self-bestowal
- Evolutionary christology
- Sacrament of salvation
- Resurrection as ontological transformation
- Resurrection expressed in creation through secondary causes
- Experience of the risen Christ in the Christian community today
- The Easter appearances
- The eschatological transformation of creation
- God's redeeming act : deifying transformation
- Redemption and deification through incarnation in Athanasius
- The God-creation relationship
- The central place of Christ's death and resurrection
- Deification in Christ
- Exploring a theology of redemption as deifying transformation
- The deifying transformation of human beings
- The deifying transformation of the material universe
- The deifying transformation of the biological world
- A participatory theology of redemption
- God's redeeming act : evolution, original sin, and the Lamb of God
- The scapegoat mechanism
- Evolutionary science on human emergence
- Original grace and original sin in evolutionary history
- The end of scapegoating and the beginning of new creation
- Final fulfilment : the deifying transformation of creation
- We hope for what we do not see : God as absolute future
- Hope for the whole creation in the New Testament : Romans 8:18-25
- Hope for the universe in patristic tradition : Maximus the Confessor
- The deification of the universe : Karl Rahner
- The deification of matter
- Radical transformation
- Real continuity
- Hope for the animals
- Prayers of intercession
- God wants our participation
- Sharing what matters with the beloved
- Entrusting ourselves to God
- Prayer as desire for God.