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"Throughout her acclaimed career as a theologian, Sr. Elizabeth Johnson has devoted much of her scholarship to contemplating God's relationship with human beings. [In]
Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love, Johnson turns her gaze upon God's relationship with the nonhumans of the world." – Jamie Manson,
National Catholic Reporter "Besides borrowing from other environmentally conscious religious thinkers, Johnson draws key insights from Darwin, whose
The Origin of Species opens a vision of a planetwide community of life. As readers contemplate the human
heedlessness that has pushed many species to (near) extinction, they will understand the urgency of
Johnson’s ecological appeal. The Catholic Bishops’ censure of Johnson’s
Quest for the Living God may
make the orthodox wary. But a writer who stirs controversy never lacks readers." – Bryce Christensen,
Booklist "Engrossing and wonderfully realized, this is a book to be read and loved." –
Publishers WeeklyAbout the Author
Elizabeth A. Johnson is Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, New York. She is the author of many bestselling books, including most recently Quest for the Living God.
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- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (March 13, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1472903730
- ISBN-13: 978-1472903730
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1.4 inches
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I couldn't wait for this book when I heard Sr. Johnson was going to explore the tension between Darwin and Creationism and Christian environmental ethics. If anybody was going to do it really well, my hunch was that it would be Sr. Beth Johnson. And again, she exceeded my expectations. Howeveer, I was very happily surprised when I saw that these hot issues aren't really what this book is about. I was caught off guard when she only used these issues as background to her intelligently argued and beautifully written testament to the wonder of God's creation by carefully and critically examining the brilliance of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species and how his work shaped what we know about the scientific beginnings of life on this Earth. Sr. Johnson probably offers the most understandable and even-handed summary of Darwin's life and work; quite extraordinary for a theologian. (I had the honor of meeting her and she is as brilliant as she is gracious.) She is very clear that her work isn't about Evolution vs. Creationism and all the arguments surrounding that today. As a theologian who has the utmost respect for the advances in scientific breakthroughs through the human genome project and new discoveries about cell biology that Darwin was right all along in his life-time study of the orgins of life. She carefully and, I think, wonderfully, respectfully separates the idea of any scientific view of Genesis. She argues that in the scientific realm that has been proven by the scientific method that it is scientifically unlikely that an intelligent designer literally or "magically" (I not sure this is the right word.) created life as we know it today. (That humanity was nothing one second and the next second was fully-formed like humanity today.
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