Christ, Redemption and Evolution

"Christ has delivered us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. In him we are reconciled to God. He can bring us to God, because he is himself God, the incarnate, atoning, indwelling God. He is the principle of evolution, the upholder and conductor of the world-process, and the culmination and goal of that evolutionary process is the bringing back of humanity in him to God."


The Fall and the Redemption of Man in the Light of Evolution, A Paper to be read at the Baptist Congress, November 15 1898, A.H. Strong.

God willing this present generation of Christians will be able to seamlessly weave the narrative of evolution with the narrative of the death and atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the praise and glory of God the Father!

An Example of Evolutionary Christian Thought

"Evolution, then, depends on increments of force plus continuity of plan. New creations are possible because the immanent God has not exhausted himself. Miracle is possible because God is not far away, but is at hand to do whatever the needs of his moral universe may require. Regeneration and answers to prayer are possible for the very reason that these are the objects for which the universe was built. Evolution, then, does not exclude Christianity. If we were deists, believing in a distant God and a mechanical universe, evolution and Christianity would be irreconcilable. But since we believe in a dynamical universe, of which the personal and living God is the inner source of energy, evolution is but the basis, foundation, and background of Christianity, the silent and regular working of him who, in the fullness of time, utters his voice in Christ and the cross."

The Fall and Redemption of Man in Light of Evolution, A Paper read at the Baptist Congress, November 15 1898, A.H. Strong