Spirituality of Creation, Evolution, and Work
Catherine Keller and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Listening to Christian spirituality carefully and liberatingly for the present is neither simple nor necessarily welcome in pluralistic and secular contexts. This series, intended for respectful existential, secular and pluralistic engagement, promotes a deep conversation about how Christian spiritual heritage matters today. Readers are invited into the art of interpretation with—and beyond—these influential texts and authors, into difficult and urgent questions about how we live well together in a world where no one single vision prevails, but where we help each other clarify what matters most, making a world with room for all spiritual paths promising justice. For the everyday quest to live well together in a world we must equally share, Christian tradition offers spiritual wisdom—and this series offers able guides in recovering that wisdom and suggesting how it can be practiced today.---Tom Beaudoin on the Past Light on Present Life: Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality series
Past Light on Present Life is a brilliantly dynamic series. It weaves together theological frameworks, ethical implications and spiritual mindsets in interpreting texts of numerous great personages in the history of Christian Spirituality. Importantly, in doing so it responds to searing questions of our current age. The genius of the series lies in the precise choices of the original texts at the heart of each concise volume, which provide the key for such pertinent interpretation. These volumes provide much needed fresh insight for experts in the field, as they also will prove invaluable for undergraduate teachers, graduate students, religious seekers and spiritual directors.---Julia D.E. Prinz on the Past Light on Present Life: Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality series
. . .[T]his piece nicely contributes to the vast corpus of theological knowing by integrating key points of two essential thinkers, thereby illuminating new perspectives on the spiritual character and meaning of our life, work, and creativity in a world of chaos, complexity, and change.---H-Net Reviews
I – Introduction to the Authors and Texts | 1
II – The Texts | 19
Catherine Keller: On Process Thinking
Selections from On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process | 21
From Chapter 1: Come, My Way: Theology as Process | 23
From Chapter 3: Be This Fish: Creation in Process | 40
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, On Evolutionary Spirituality
Selections from The Divine Milieu | 55
From Part One: The Divinisation of Our Activities | 57
From Part Two: The Divinisation of Our Passivities | 83
III – A Spirituality of Creativity and Work | 105
Further Reading | 125
About the Series | 127
About the Editors | 133
