Catholicism and Evolution: A History from Darwin to Pope Francis

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For Catholics, the question of evolution touches on the entire most essential topics: the nature of God and his work on the planet, the nature of life, and the status of man in the universe. It’s also an issue of perennial controversy and confusion. Some see the Darwinian theory of evolution as a huge agent in discrediting the Church’s doctrine on creation, undermining biblically-based morality and the concept that of human exceptionalism. Others regard Darwinian theory as compatible with biblical faith and Catholic tradition. Has the Church itself “evolved”? Or are there certain truths which are permanent and irreplaceable? 

Fr. Michael Chaberek is a Polish Dominican who has studied creation doctrine from Old and New Testament accounts to the Church Fathers, to the Medieval Scholastics (especially St. Thomas Aquinas), to the Vatican’s internal and public papers of the 19th and 20th centuries–and on into our own times and the pronouncements of contemporary popes. His new book gathers all doctrinal statements on evolution and presents the history of the engagement of Catholicism with natural science since Darwin presented his theory in 1859. What he finds is a clear path that step by step became twisted and over-grown. His exploration of that path is both scholarly and engrossing.

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