Re-conceiving God and humanity in light of today's evolutionary-ecologicalconsciousness

The anthropocentric orientation of traditional understandings of Christian faith and life, further accentuated by the existentialist terms in which th eology was articulated in mid-century by Tillich and others, produced theol ogies no longer appropriate in today's world of evolutionary and ecological thinking about human existence and its embeddedness in the web of life on planet Earth. This problem can be addressed with the help of several new co ncepts that enable us to understand both humanity-in-the-world and God in w ays in keeping with these present conceptions, thus providing a more intell igible and illuminating way of understanding Christian faith and life today .