RT Article
T1 God in Creation: A Consideration of Natural Selection as the Sacrificial Means of a Free Creation:
JF Studies in religion
VO 48
IS 2
SP 216
OP 236
A1 Watson, Simon R.
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1671602439
AB If the Christian God is creator of all things and revealed in Christ to be costly love, then how can divine agency in creation be understood in light of scientific discoveries revealing that biological warfare undergirds Darwinian evolution by natural selection? To explore this challenge, I look to Philip Hefner's teleonomic axiom as a measure for divine agency in the fulfillment and survival of natural structures and processes. Drawing on this criterion and the feminist writing of Judith Plaskow, I conclude that Hefner's attempt to understand divine immanence using the metaphor of sacrifice with John Hick's Irenaean Theodicy can support a risky model for the human as made in God's image by justifying the instrumental subjugation and exploitation of creaturely life and specifically women. Considering the God crucified in Christ, I recommend the metaphor of a fallen creation to acknowledge the inexplicable and unacceptable magnitude of harm suffered by individual creatures.
K1 Christ and creation
K1 Christianisme
K1 Christianity
K1 John H. Hick's Irenaean theodicy
K1 Judith Plaskow
K1 Philip Hefner
K1 Théodicée Irénéenne de John H. Hick, Judith Plaskow
K1 evolution by natural selection
K1 Feminism
K1 Féminisme
K1 le Christ et la création
K1 Sacrifice
K1 teleology and providence
K1 téléologie et providence
K1 évolution par sélection naturelle
DO 10.1177/0008429819830356