How can Traditional Christianity relate to evolution? Not as the modernists attempt to do, by changing the Traditional. All the Traditions of the Church from Christ and his Apostles can be maintained as the most authentic and, indeed, the sacred way to see and communicate with God. And Traditional Christian social and economic teachings must be maintained as the best way for men to live. Nothing of Tradition is rejected in the Theoevolutionary Church, as it is in Christian modernism.
What is added to the Traditional way of seeing and communicating with God---which is the glory of Tradition ---is the bio-spiritual path to God through evolution. Tradition creates the best, ordered, environment for evolution to take place, and it is most harmonious with the laws of nature and the natural law. We can affirm this in the new science of sociobiology, which finds Traditions as also often having been the best way to survive and reproduce successfully.
Our symbol shows Tradition and Evolution dynamically together. “Reason” gets it “food” for thought, as someone put it, from the above aspect of the symbol, where intellection or Revelation take place, and the below aspect of the symbol bring knowledge through observed phenomena. Truth depends on both, even though science tends to deny Revelation and Revelation denies science. Both work together in the Theoevolutionary Church.
Naturalism is represented by the lower half of our St. Andrew cross, supernaturalism by the upper half. Intellection in the upper half suggests the Omega of God, observed phenomena in the lower half suggests the Alpha of God. We are not asked to make a choice between these.
What is added to the Traditional way of seeing and communicating with God---which is the glory of Tradition ---is the bio-spiritual path to God through evolution. Tradition creates the best, ordered, environment for evolution to take place, and it is most harmonious with the laws of nature and the natural law. We can affirm this in the new science of sociobiology, which finds Traditions as also often having been the best way to survive and reproduce successfully.
Our symbol shows Tradition and Evolution dynamically together. “Reason” gets it “food” for thought, as someone put it, from the above aspect of the symbol, where intellection or Revelation take place, and the below aspect of the symbol bring knowledge through observed phenomena. Truth depends on both, even though science tends to deny Revelation and Revelation denies science. Both work together in the Theoevolutionary Church.
Naturalism is represented by the lower half of our St. Andrew cross, supernaturalism by the upper half. Intellection in the upper half suggests the Omega of God, observed phenomena in the lower half suggests the Alpha of God. We are not asked to make a choice between these.
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