The Divine Welling Up and Showing Through: Teilhard's Evolutionary Theology in a Trinitarian Panentheistic-Procreative Paradigm

Author:

Schaab, Gloria L.

Format:

Journal Article

Year:

2007

Journal Title:

Teilhard Studies

Issue:

55

Language:

English

Abstract:

Cosmic creativity in the evolutionary theology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is most often focused through the Christological lens of the Cosmic Christ as Omega, the source, energy, and goal of the evolutive process. This study, however, appropriates a panentheistic-procreative paradigm to seek out and differentiate the Trinitarian relations of God to the cosmos as transcendent, incarnate, and immanent creativity. Bringing Teilhard’s insights concerning the Divine Milieu, the Cosmic Christ, and Energy as radial and tangential into conversation with this paradigm discloses a triune God who is intimately present and operative through creative union with, in, and within an evolving cosmos.

Who (Jesuits):

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 1881–1955

What (Subjects):

Theology -- Trinity

Theology -- Evolutionism

Theology -- Method -- Paradigms

When (Centuries):

20th century

Page Range:

1–34

ISSN:

0739-2303