Redeeming a Cruciform Nature
Christopher Southgate recognizes that the natural world is both ambiguous, mixing goods and bads, and simultaneously dramatically creative, such creativity resulting from just this ambiguous challenge of environmental conductance and resistance. Life is lived in green pastures and in the valley of t...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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[2018]
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Zygon
Année: 2018, Volume: 53, Numéro: 3, Pages: 739-751 |
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Évolution
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion CF Christianisme et science NBC Dieu |
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Christopher Southgate
B Évolution B Suffering B cruciform creation |
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| Résumé: | Christopher Southgate recognizes that the natural world is both ambiguous, mixing goods and bads, and simultaneously dramatically creative, such creativity resulting from just this ambiguous challenge of environmental conductance and resistance. Life is lived in green pastures and in the valley of the shadow of death. Perhaps this is the only way God could have created the values found on Earth, by means of such disvalues, as a Darwinian natural selection account suggests. Generating Earth's biodiversity requires struggle, success, and failureand such an only way would constrain a powerful, loving God. But Southgate judges this too uncaring of suffering individuals, the products of evolution sacrificed to the systemic process. Perhaps God through Jesus redeems all the sacrificed individualspelicans in a pelican heavenbut redemption of all the bullfrogs and acorns becomes an incredible hope. Nature is a cruciform creation, where life persists in perpetual perishing. Life is forever conserved, regenerated, redeemed. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12428 |