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The Christian Mutation: Reclaiming the Dynamic God of the Jesus

The Christian Mutation: Reclaiming the Dynamic God of the Jesus

Delio, Ilia

Paperback

Catholicism

Publisher Price: $28.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 28, 2026

ISBN10: 1626986886
ISBN13: 9781626986886
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: Oct 28 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Ilia Delio traces a bold theological arc: the God revealed in Jesus marked a radical breakthrough -- an intimate, dynamic relationship between God and creation that was unlike anything before it. But as the early Church confronted heresy, it reached for the stabilizing frameworks of Neoplatonic thought, gradually trading that living insight for philosophical abstraction. This move was eventually codified in Thomist metaphysics, where it became the dominant tradition. Yet another current ran beneath the surface. Through Francis of Assisi, Duns Scotus, and Bonaventure, a creation-centered, incarnational faith survived -- one that kept God close to the world rather than remote from it. Delio argues the Church has remained too long in the grip of its older metaphysical inheritance, and that renewal is overdue. That renewal, she suggests, is already underway. Whitehead's process theology breathes new life into this alternative tradition, and Teilhard de Chardin draws it into dialogue with Catholic thought. The thread comes together in Pope Francis's Laudato Si' -- a genuinely Franciscan theology of creation that recovers, at last, the intimacy between God and the world that Jesus first made visible, a living God at home in a dynamically relational universe.

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