Christ, Creation, and the Fall: Discerning Human Purpose from an Evolving Nature

Inspired by Philip Hefner's The Human Factor (1993), Simon R. Watson engages Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871), William Paley's Natural Theology (1802), and the twenty-first century Wisdom Christologies of Denis Edwards and Elizabeth Johnson to argue for a liberative theology of nature grounded in a compassionate Christ and an existential fall.