The Groaning of Creation

The Groaning of Creation
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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9780664230906
ISBN-13 : 0664230903
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Book Synopsis The Groaning of Creation by : Christopher Southgate

Download or read book The Groaning of Creation written by Christopher Southgate and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain, suffering, and extinction are intrinsic to the evolutionary process. In this book Christopher Southgate shows how the world that is very good is also groaning in travail and subjected by God to that travail. Southgate then evaluates several attempts at evolutionary theodicy and argues for his own approachan approach that takes full account of Gods self-emptying and human beings special responsibilities as created cocreators. Christopher Southgate is Honorary University Fellow in Theology at the University of Exeter, England, and Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Originally trained as a biochemist at the University of Cambridge, he is the general editor and principal author of God, Humanity and the Cosmos (3rd ed.).

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