Dr. Freeman

Check out the following links for two papers I presented at a “Christianity After Darwin” conference at the Flinders University Center for Science, Theology and Culture.

The first is titled “Heading Towards Omega?” and it leans heavily on Ken Wilber’s magnus opus “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality” by arguing that modern science has recently discovered the “self-organizing” capacity of the universe towards higher levels of complexity/consciousness. This paper therefore provides scientific evidence for the notion that “self-realization through self-transcendence” (Jantsch) is the defining feature of a fully fledged evolutionary spirituality. Simply put: the evolving universe is a God-in-the-making…

The second paper “Evolutionary Christology” looks at the the darker aspects of the evolutionary trajectory from star dust to Shakespear and identifies a dynamic pattern of “transformation via instability” through the cosmos, the biosphere and human history… It then asks the question: who is the person of Jesus and what is the finished work of the Cross in the evolutionary context of modern science? Enjoy…