RT Article
T1 Christ and Evolution: A Drama of Wisdom?1
JF Zygon
VO 47
IS 3
SP 524
OP 541
A1 Deane-Drummond, Celia
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827963395
AB This paper argues that a genuine engagement of Christianity with evolution needs to include a discussion of Christology. Further, it develops a particular approach to Christology through a theo-dramatic account of incarnation. The somewhat static post-Chalcedon theological categories of divine and human natures are hard to square with contemporary evolutionary accounts of human origins. Once the divine Logos is portrayed in the active categories of Wisdom it becomes easier to envisage divine and creaturely wisdom coexisting in the person of Christ. I argue, in particular, that a focus on God's agency through a modified version of Hans Urs von Balthasar's account of theo-drama invites participation and affirms human agency in a way that grand narratives do not. More particularly, drawing on examples from hominid evolution, contemporary discussion of paleontology and cooperative evolutionary theories, I suggest that the most convincing accounts of evolutionary biology fit into this theo-dramatic account more readily than alternatives. As such, in the spirit of Robert Boyle, this paper deliberately blurs the categories of revealed and natural theology by arguing that we can make sense of the former through concentration on the latter.
K1 Wisdom
K1 Theo-drama
K1 Sophia
K1 Religious Evolution
K1 Kenosis
K1 Incarnation
K1 hominid
K1 grand narrative
K1 Evolution
K1 Epic
K1 Cooperation
K1 Convergence
K1 Christology
K1 Robert Boyle
K1 Hans Urs Von Balthasar
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2012.01272.x