21 August 2014, The Tablet

Divine evolution


 
Darwin’s seminal work is still seen in some quarters as incompatible with Christianity. But Catholic theologians and scientists have come to see it as evidence of God’s creative dynamism Many Christians are astonished at the revelations of twentieth-century science, much of what is now known as the “New Universe Story”. These revelations encourage us to reflect more thoroughly on St Thomas Aquinas’ reminder that God is revealed in both the book of nature and of the Scriptures. For too long the two stories have collided with each other. But both the love story revealed in the orthodox theology of Creation, and the emerging stories about our evolving world, reveal a fundamental interconnectedness and integration. “Geologian” Fr Thomas Berry wrote t
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