The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love

by Ilia Delio

Overview

CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD WINNER! NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD - SILVER in Science & Religion The award-winning author of Christ in Evolution and The Emergent Christ breaks new ground with this capstone in a trilogy that opens our eyes to the everywhere active, all powerful, all intelligent Love that guides and directs our new awareness of interrelatedness and interbeing. She writes: We all have a part to play in this unfolding Love; we are wholes within wholes; persons within persons; religions within religions. We are one body and we seek one mind and heart so that the whole may become more whole, more personal and unified in love. This is our Christian vocation, to live in the Christ who is rising up from the ashes of death to become for us the God of the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626980297
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	04/01/2013
Pages:	206
Sales rank:	625,866
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. A native of Newark, NJ, she earned doctorates in pharmacology from the New Jersey Medical School/School of Biomedical Sciences and in historical theology from Fordham University, NY, and is the recipient of a notable Templeton Course in Science and Religion award. Delio is the author of seventeen books including The Unbearable Wholeness of Being and Making All Things New and she lectures internationally on topics including evolution, artificial intelligence, consciousness, and religion.