Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index.
Foreword / Arthur Peacocke -- 1. Scripting the Human Venture -- 2. A Theology of the Created Co-Creator -- 3. Nature as the Matrix of Being Human -- 4. Nature as God's Great Project -- 5. God-Talk and Human Experience of the World -- 6. Freedom as the Determined Human Condition -- 7. Freedom and Determinism in Evolutionary Perspective -- 8. Biological Perspectives on Original Sin -- 9. Culture as Constructed Systems of Information -- 10. The Emergence of Myth and Ritual within Culture -- 11. Myth, Ritual, Morality, and the Love Command -- 12. Altruism and Christian Love -- 13. On the Way to Theology -- 14. Rendering the Theological Tradition -- 15. The Created Co-Creator as Exploratory Proposal -- Epilogue: Taking Leave of a Theme