Creator God, Evolving World

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Creator God, Evolving World Creator God, Evolving World Cynthia Crysdale and Neil Ormerod Fortress Press Minneapolis CREATOR GOD, EVOLVING WORLD Copyright © 2013 Fortress Press. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Visit http://www .augsburgfortress.org/copyrights/contact.asp or write to Permissions, Augsburg Fortress, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440. Unless otherwise noted, scripture quotations are the author’s own translation or from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, and are used with permission. Parts of chapter 2 are revisions taken from Cynthia S. W. Crysdale, “Making a Way by Walking: Risk, Control, and Emergent Probability,” Théoforum 39 (2008): 39–58. Portions of chapter 6 are revisions of previous work in the following articles : Cynthia S. W. Crysdale, “Making a Way by Walking: Risk, Control, and Emergent Probability,” Théoforum 39 (2008): 39–58; idem, “Risk Versus Control : Grounding a Feminist Ethic for the New Millennium,” in Themes in Feminist Theology for the New Millennium (III), ed. Gaile M. Polhaus (Villanova: Villanova University Press, 2006), 1–22; and idem, “Playing God? Moral Agency in an Emergent World,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 23 (2003): 398–426. The diagram of the Krebs cycle on p. 33 is copyright © 2008 Clarke Earley and used with the permission of the author. Cover design: Justin Korhonen Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Crysdale, Cynthia S. W., 1953– Creator God, evolving world / Cynthia Crysdale and Neil Ormerod. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-0-8006-9877-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4514-2643-4 (ebook) 1. Religion and science. 2. Evolution. 3. God (Christianity) 4. Evolution—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Ormerod, Neil. II. Title. BL240.3.C7485 2013 231.7’652—dc23 2012035079 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z329.48-1984. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 17 16 15 14 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 To John Haughey, S.J. and Patrick H. Byrne, who encouraged us in the asking of big questions Creation is not an event but a relation. —Charles C. Hefling ...