Christianity in Evolution: An Exploration

by John Mahoney and Jack Mahoney

Book Overview

Evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revolutionary consequences for Christianity. In an evolutionary perspective the incarnation involved God entering the evolving human species to help it imitate the trinitarian altruism in whose image it was created and counter its tendency to self-absorption. Primarily, however, the evolutionary achievement of Jesus was to confront and overcome death in an act of cosmic significance, ushering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589017692
• ISBN13: 9781589017696
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher