| Introduction | 1 |
| My Evolutionary Creed | 2 |
| My Lack of Faith | 3 |
| Part 1 | Our Great Story | |
| 1. | Evolution: The Narrative Told Afresh | 7 |
| Evolution as Story | 8 |
| The Conventional Story | 9 |
| The Story Told Afresh | 13 |
| Symbiosis: How the Story Hangs Together | 15 |
| As the Story Unfolds | 19 |
| 2. | Evolutionary Theology: Meaning from the Future | 24 |
| Our Pessimistic Future | 25 |
| Lured by the Future | 26 |
| Liberating Possibility | 29 |
| Embracing the Shadow | 32 |
| Evolutionary Theology | 33 |
| The Promise Fulfilled | 35 |
| Part 2 | Synergy | |
| 3. | An Emptiness That Overflows | 41 |
| How Did It All Begin? | 43 |
| What Is Energy? | 45 |
| Creative Energy and Our Understanding of God | 47 |
| What Is Cosmogenesis? | 49 |
| The Self-Organizing Universe | 50 |
| The Divine Life-Force | 52 |
| Prodigiously Creative | 54 |
| 4. | Aliveness as an E-merging Property | 57 |
| The Lively Universe | 59 |
| Enter Biology | 61 |
| The Essence of Life | 62 |
| Life: The Properties and the Process | 65 |
| Revisiting Darwin | 66 |
| Life in Context: Theological Horizons | 68 |
| Part 3 | Relationality | |
| 5. | The Divine as Relational Matrix | 77 |
| Divinity Reconsidered | 78 |
| Windows to the Relational Matrix | 81 |
| Imaging a Relational God | 83 |
| Personhood Reconsidered | 85 |
| Revelation as Relationship | 87 |
| Revelation and the Divine Eros | 91 |
| 6. | Thriving on Paradox | 94 |
| The Punctuated Pattern | 96 |
| The Baffling Paradox | 99 |
| The Paradox of Human Suffering | 102 |
| Death and Resurrection: Christian or Cosmic? | 104 |
| Resurrection and Transformation | 107 |
| 7. | Boundaries That No Longer Hold | 110 |
| Knowing Where We Stand with Reality | 111 |
| Measuring Time | 113 |
| Time and Timelessness | 115 |
| The Space around Us | 117 |
| The Space-Time Continuum | 118 |
| Beyond the Boundaries | 120 |
| Part 4 | Embodiment | |
| 8. | "This Is My Body" | 125 |
| The Body Demonized | 126 |
| The Body in Context | 128 |
| Body as Process | 130 |
| Embodiment and Personhood | 132 |
| The Body as Eucharist | 134 |
| 9. | Humanity's Rightful Place | 138 |
| Our Beginnings | 139 |
| Creativity and the Evolution of Language | 142 |
| A Spiritualized Species | 145 |
| The Triumph and Tragedy of Civilization | 147 |
| Humans and the Evolution of Consciousness | 150 |
| 10. | Incarnation: African Style | 151 |
| Our African Origins | 151 |
| Incarnation Reassessed | 152 |
| The Spirit of Africa | 155 |
| Violence Reassessed | 160 |
| Utopia Revisited | 163 |
| Part 5 | Consciousness | |
| 11. | Consciousness: The Future of Evolution | 169 |
| What Do We Mean by Consciousness? | 170 |
| Consciousness, Wisdom, and Depth | 174 |
| Consciousness Evolving | 176 |
| Nurtured by Consciousness | 179 |
| 12. | Consciousness and Globalization | 182 |
| The Rise of Globalization | 183 |
| The Shift in Consciousness | 187 |
| Consciousness and the Mysticism of Our Time | 191 |
| Outgrowing Our Alienation | 194 |
| 13. | Our Next Evolutionary Leap | 197 |
| Honoring the Universal | 198 |
| Befriending the Earth | 200 |
| Redefining the Human | 201 |
| The Future | 204 |
| Notes | 207 |
| Bibliography | 213 |
| Index | 221 |
