Showing posts with label Kenosis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenosis. Show all posts
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Natural (s)Election, Part Two: Anthropocentrism, Myopia, and the Uniqueness of Humanity

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Read  Part One . The acceptance of evolution by theologians is inevitable. Why say this? Because it must be. The Christian faith canno...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Theistic Evolution: A Theological Narrative

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What follows is offered up as a provisional theological narrative for a Christian account of theistic evolution: 1. Creatio ex nihilo  (...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Seven Views on Creation, Evolution, and Divine Intervention

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1. Young Earth Creationism: Supernatural explanations account for the origin of the universe, the apparent age of the earth and its ...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

The Essence of Sin & the Freedom to Become

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The freedom-to-become assumed in creatio ex nihilo takes on a new significance with the awakening of consciousness and the actualizati...

Imago Dei, Divine Risk & the Freedom to Become

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Any attempt to present a coherent theistic-evolutionary understanding of creation must begin with the idea of divine kenosis , or "...
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Thursday, February 2, 2012

God's Purpose or Nature's Dice? The proper role of teleology in an evolutionary account of the cosmos

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An early pioneer of theistic-evolutionary thought, the Jesuit scholar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), suggested that the course ...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Theosis Realized: An evolutionary look at creation, the fall, and our restoration in Christ (Part Two)

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"God does not exist without humanity, because God has decided in Jesus Christ not to be God without us. Likewise, humanity does not...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Theosis Interrupted: An evolutionary look at the creation of the cosmos and the fall of Adam (Part One)

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Creation is an act of kenosis , i.e. a “self-emptying,” whereby the Creator pours out the divine-self to “make room” for something oth...
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