Evolving Humanity and Biblical Wisdom

Marie Noonan Sabin holds a PhD in English from Yale and an MA from Union Theological Seminary. She has taught English at Vassar, Barnard, and Douglass, and the Gospel of Mark at Bangor Theological Seminary. She is the author of Evolving Humanity and Biblical Wisdom: Reading Scripture through the Lens of Teilhard de Chardin and The Gospel According to Mark in the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series published by Liturgical Press. She is also the author of Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism (Oxford University Press).

"Marie Noonan Sabin has written a book that fills a gap in Teilhard Studies, that is, the place of Scripture in his evolutionary paradigm. By bringing together Teilhard's emergence of the ultrahuman and wisdom literature she draws out, in a beautiful and deep way, the consonance between Teilhard's Christic vision and the scriptural vision of human becoming. Contrary to some of his critics, Sabin affirms that Teilhard's insights were deeply biblical and Christian. I highly recommend this book for those interested in a biblical exegesis of Teilhard's incarnational vision."Ilia Delio, OSF, Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology, Villanova University

• ContentsIntroduction viiChapter 1 Job and the Evolution of God 1Chapter 2 Ascent, Secrets, Ecstasy: Metaphors forExpanding Consciousness 19Chapter 3 From the Personification of Wisdom to the Personof Christ: The Evolving of the Divine Feminine 33Chapter 4 Mark: God’s Wisdom Hidden in the Riddle ofthe Christ 53Chapter 5 Matthew: God’s Wisdom “Reactualized for thePresent Hour” 73Chapter 6 Luke: God’s Spirit (Wisdom) as the Divine EnergyCreating the Future 97Chapter 7 John: God’s Wisdom Made Flesh and DwellingAmong Us 119Chapter 8 “The Flesh Made Word”: Humanity EvolvingTowards a Unifying Consciousness? 137Works Cited 157Index of Authors and Subjects 161Index of Sacred Texts 168