The God of Evolution: A Trinitarian Theology

Bygger upp en relationell ontologi och teologi baserad på "mutual friendship" och "free self-limitation in love". Tillsammans med Aquinus distinktion mellan primära och sekundära orsaker ger det en god grund för att inte hamna i upplysningens och nya ateismens, eller för den delen, kreationismens endimensionella/positivistiska epistemologi och således "interventionistiska" gudsbild, i samma plan och i konkurrens med naturliga förklaringar. Nyckel-citat: (John Haught): "There is no more theological difficulty in the remorseless law of natural selection, which is said to be impersonal and blind, than in the laws of inertia, gravity or any other impersonal aspects of science. Gravity, like natural selection, has no regard for our inherent personal dignity either." "If God is understood in relational terms, then this suggests that God is also understood in terms of the limitations that are freely accepted in loving relationships." "Omnipotence, understood in the light of the cross, is the supreme power to freely give one's self in love." "In comtemporary theology, alongside this view of God's respect for human freedom, there is a new emphasis on God's respect for the processes of nature. Richard and other theologians are rightly insisting that we need to think of God respecting and making room "for a natural order characterized by open-endedness and flexibility."" "The Darwinian view of evolution springing from variation and natural selection is not necessarily opposed to the idea of God as a purposeful Creator. It is certainly opposed to simplistic views of God creating through a series of divine interventions. But it is not in conflict with a view of God creating in and through natural processes, including chance and natural laws. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) long ago clarified that God's way of acting in the world (what can be called primary causality) is not opposed to the whole network of cause and effect in nature (secondary causality). God's work is achieved in and through creaturely cause and effect. It is not in competition with it."

Very thoughtful and well reasoned work.