Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD

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Does God Need Us? Rethinking the God-World Relationship with Teilhard de Chardin

Classical theology states that God freely creates, that is, God creates with no other motive than God's own desire and delight.  God is in relationship with us but God does not depend on us.  Teilhard de Chardin reflected on God's relationship to the world and concluded that God and world are in mutual relationship.  God is not so much delighted by the world but dependent on the world for God's own fullness of life.   We will explore Teilhard's insights with regard to the significance of the cosmic Christ, Christian life and the Church.