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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Characteristics of the Universe Revealed by the Sciences | |
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| A Universe That Evolves at All Levels | |
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| A Universe Constituted by Patterns of Relationship | |
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| A Universe Where Natural Processes Have Their Own Integrity | |
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| A Directional Universe | |
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| The Costs of Evolution | |
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| Divine Action in the Christ-Event | |
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| Jesus' Vision of Divine Action: The Reign of God | |
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| Parables of Divine Action | |
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| Healing | |
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| The Open Table | |
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| The Community of Disciples | |
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| Divine Action for Jesus | |
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| Divine Action in the Light of the Whole Christ-Event | |
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| God Who Lovingly Waits upon Creation | |
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| The Vulnerability of Divine Love | |
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| Creation as Divine Self-Bestowal | |
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| The Specific and Historical Character of Divine Acts | |
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| Creation as the Self-Bestowal of God | |
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| Enabling and Empowering Evolutionary Emergence | |
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| Noninterventionist Divine Action | |
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| Enabling Creaturely Autonomy to Flourish | |
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| Divine Action That Accepts the Limits of Creaturely Processes | |
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| Creating through Chance and Lawfulness | |
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| Special Divine Acts | |
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| Special Acts in the Providential Guidance of Creation | |
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| Approaches to Special Divine Acts | |
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| Divine Action through Secondary Causes | |
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| God's Special Acts in Evolutionary Emergence | |
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| The Dynamism and the Creaturely Limits of Special Divine Acts | |
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| Special Divine Acts in the Life of Grace | |
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| Experiences of the Holy Spirit | |
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| Personal Providence | |
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| Disruptive Grace | |
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| Special Divine Acts in the History of Salvation | |
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| Mediation by Created Realities | |
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| Sacramental Structure of Special Divine Acts | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Miracles and the Laws of Nature | |
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| The Miracles of Jesus | |
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| Aquinas on the Dignity of Secondary Causes | |
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| The Laws of Nature | |
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| A Theological Approach | |
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| The Divine Act of Resurrection | |
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| Resurrection: A Free Act of God from within Creation | |
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| That Gives Creation Its Deepest Meaning | |
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| Central Expression of God's Act of Self-Bestowal | |
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| Evolutionary Christology | |
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| Sacrament of Salvation | |
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| Resurrection as Ontological Transformation | |
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| Resurrection Expressed in Creation through Secondary Causes | |
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| Experience of the Risen Christ in the Christian Community Today | |
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| The Easter Appearances | |
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| The Eschatological Transformation of Creation | |
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| God's Redeeming Act: Deifying Transformation | |
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| Redemption and Deification through Incarnation: Athanasius | |
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| The God-Creation Relationship | |
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| The Central Place of Christ's Death and Resurrection | |
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| Deification in Christ | |
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| Exploring a Theology of Redemption as Deifying Transformation | |
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| The Deifying Transformation of Human Beings | |
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| The Deifying Transformation of the Material Universe | |
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| The Deifying Transformation of the Biological World | |
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| A Participatory Theology of Redemption | |
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| God's Redeeming Act: Evolution, Original Sin, and the Lamb of God | |
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| The Scapegoat Mechanism | |
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| Evolutionary Science on Human Emergence | |
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| Original Grace and Original Sin in Evolutionary History | |
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| The End of Scapegoating and the Beginning of New Creation | |
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| Final Fulfillment: The Deifying Transformation of Creation | |
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| We Hope for What We Do Not See: God as Absolute Future | |
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| Hope for the Whole Creation in the New Testament: Romans 8:18-25 | |
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| Hope for the Universe in Patristic Tradition: Maximus the Confessor | |
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| The Deification of the Universe: Karl Rahner | |
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| The Deification of Matter | |
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| Radical Transformation | |
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| Real Continuity | |
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| Hope for the Animals | |
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| Prayers of Intercession | |
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| God Wants Our Participation | |
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| Sharing What Matters with the Beloved | |
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| Entrusting Ourselves to God | |
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| Prayer as Desire for God | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |