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  • 6 - Evolution and Creation

  • Mariusz Tabaczek, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome
  • Book:
    Theistic Evolution
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023, pp 178-200

  • Summary

    Chapter six speaks against the popular image, commonly accepted within the circles of contemporary advocates of theistic evolutionism, of God creating within and through evolutionary processes, thus sharing his creative power with his creatures. The criticism of this idea is followed by a constructive argument that we should classify evolutionary changes and newly emerged species as an integral aspect of divine governance rather than divine creation, which for Aquinas means but one thing or action – i.e., bringing things into existence ex nihilo, and not through transformation of already existing matter.

  • 5 - Aquinas and Evolution

  • Mariusz Tabaczek, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome
  • Book:
    Theistic Evolution
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023, pp 156-177

  • Summary

    Chapter five asks a question about the hypothetical reaction of Aquinas to evolutionary biology, revealing the complexity of the debate on whether there is a “space” for evolution in his theology, as well as the openness for reinterpretation and further development of his ideas in reference to the contemporary metaphysical analyses of speciation. It ends with an original constructive proposal of the contemporary Thomistic account of theistic evolution.