Human Becoming in an Age of Science, Technology, and Faith

Philip Hefner is a theologian and poet. He is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Jason P. Roberts is senior lecturer of Christian theology and affiliate faculty of the Sustainability Certificate Program at the University of Georgia, Athens. Mladen Turk is professor and chair of the religious studies department at Elmhurst University.

• Part 1Created to Be Creators: Human Becoming in an Age of Science, Technology, and FaithPhilip HefnerChapter 1 Created to Be a CreatorChapter 2 Human Creating—What Does It Matter?Chapter 3 Created Co-Creator: Symbol of Human BecomingChapter 4 Created Co-Creator: The Theological FrameworkEpilogue: The Greatest Challenge: The Created Co-Creator Creates a Co-CreatorPart 2Co-Creating, Extended ResponsesChapter 5 The Created Co-Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer: Extending Symbols of Human and Divine Relating Jason P. RobertsChapter 6 Creativity, Co-Creating, And the Moral Community Karl E. PetersPart 3Co-Creating, ContinuedChapter 7 Created to be a Co-Creator: The Cosmic Meaning of Being Human Ted PetersChapter 8 Knowing our Place: In the Image of God, at Home in the Cosmos Anna Case-WintersChapter 9 Icons and Images: Seeing all of Creation as Created Co-Creators Ann Milliken PedersonChapter 10 Institutions and the Created Co-Creator Gregory R. PetersonChapter 11 The Crisis of Tech

Philip Hefner’s understanding of humans as God’s “co-creators” is one of the most exciting ideas to emerge from the twentieth century encounter of Christianity with evolutionary thinking, transforming our notion of God from the Augustinian eternal being beyond time and space to a Creator ever active in the world alongside human beings. It is a joy, as well as deeply humbling, to have Hefner’s reflections on a life’s intellectual journey, and then to have the sympathetic reactions of his friends – and critics!