My theological interpretation of primal emergence

“Emergence” over the last several years has been studied by science but also by theology. Jürgen Moltmann says emergent theology teaches that “God is enfolded in the world, so he has to be unfolded, and that’s where you get the concept of emergence.” Bradford McCall (Zygon 2010) asserts that “the Spirit is kenotically poured into creation, which onsets the long and laborious process of prebiotic evolution, leading to biological evolution toward increasing complexity.”

In theological materialism my interpretation of primal emergence identifies activating Tirips or the will as material, not spiritual---Tirips is never separate from the material body and animates or activates life as every cell in our body instinctively demands to live and have survival and reproductive success.

The complexification of matter, then, has its ontological origin through the agency of the activation of Tirips within life which activates life to evolve toward Godhood. Tirips enables the emergence or unfolding of the natural processes of life according to life's own inherent potentialities and possibilities, along with outward natural selection and inward evolution.

This natural activation can be blocked, subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but I don't think this primal life-activation and its connection with evolution can be intellectually or instinctively denied---it is directly and indirectly involved in the sacred evolutionary path to ascending levels of real Godhood.