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THEOLOGY IN AN EVOLUTIONARY MODE

Schmitz‐Moormann

Karl

02 06 1992

27 2

10.1111/zygo.1992.27.issue-2

133 151

Abstract. Evolution has become the standard way of understanding the world process. Theology has to express traditional faith in the context of the contemporary world. Since the common world view has profoundly changed, from a static world of being into a dynamic world of becoming, theology needs to change its language and its understanding of the universe as God's creation. This understanding of an evolving world is to be used as a theological source. Such a change of perspective necessitates a fundamental reconstructing of theology; for theology, such reconstructing means a renewed understanding of the Creator and of the Incarnation.

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