Is God Still the “Creator of Heaven and Earth?”
The Darwin Effect in Theology
17th century conflicts
Galileo
“Choice of David and Zion”L’osservatore romano of Sept. 22, 2005
21st Century Controversies
19th – 21st century reconciliations
Vatican I (1870) Pope Pius XII Divinu afflante
spiritu (1946) Humani generis (1950) Vatican II (1962-65) Pope John Paul II Pontifical
Academy of Sciences (1996)
Pope Benedict XVI Pontifical Academy of Sciences (2008)
Creation
What the Bible says about creation, and why
Lorenzo GHIBERTI (1425-52 )
“Creator of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible….”
Council of Nicaea (325) The Pantokrator presiding over all creation (Monreale, 12th century)
Medieval order
The medieval understanding of the order and harmony of the universe
La sainte chapelle (13th century)
The Darwin Effect
Who is God? (theology) Human relations: competition or cooperation? (anthropology) May the Church alter its structure? (ecclesiology) Is there a divine plan for salvation? (soteriology)
“It is the combination of chance and necessary processes in a fertile universe that best explains the universe as seen by science.” ~ George Coyne, S.J., former director of the Vatican Observatory.
What creation tells us about God
•Tintoretto (1550)
•“From the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator.” (Wisdom 13:5)
Competition or Cooperation?
Evolving Church?
Hierarchical Corporal
The Divine Plan
•Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
•The Divine Milieu
Baptistery of Florence (11th – 12th centuries)
