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Creator God, Evolving World

  • ISBN-13: 9780800698775
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Cynthia Crysdale, Edited by Neil Ormerod
  • Price: AUD $51.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 01/01/2013
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 184 pages Weight: 240g
  • Categories: Christian theology [HRCM]
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Cynthia Crysdale and Neil Ormerod here present a robust theology of God in light of supposed tensions between Christian belief and evolutionary science. A truly intelligent and accessible defense of the compatibility of classical theism with the evolutionary worldview, this volume is an important and provocative contribution to the debate. Creator God, Evolving World clarifies a number of confused assumptions in an effort to redeem chance as an intelligible force interacting with stable patterns in nature. By clarifying terms often used imprecisely in both scientific and theological discourse, the authors make the case that the role of chance in evolution neither mitigates God's radical otherness from creation nor challenges the efficacy of God's providence in the world. Finally, this view of God and the evolving world yields implications for our understanding of human action. Moral agency, even God's work of redemption, unfolds according to an ethic of risk rather than by the quick fix of determinative control.
Cynthia Crysdale is professor of Christian ethics and theology at the School of Theology at Sewanee: University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She is the author of Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today (1999), and editor of Lonergan and Feminism (1994). Neil Ormerod is professor of theology in the School of Theology and member of the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University in Strathfield, Australia. He is the author of A Public God: Natural Theology Reconsidered (Fortress Press, 2015) and Re-Visioning the Church: An Experiment in Systematic-Historical Ecclesiology (Fortress Press, 2014), and coauthor of Foundational Theology: A New Approach to Catholic Fundamental Theology (Fortress Press, 2015) and Creator God, Evolving World (Fortress Press, 2013).
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