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How God acts: creation, redemption, and special divine action
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Fortress Press
Publication Date
c2010
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English
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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.
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9780800697006
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