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SUMMARY:The Divine Logic of Evolution: Reading Evolutionary Biology Throug
 h the Lens of Maximus the Confessor’s Logoi Cosmology - Dr Andrew Jackso
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CONTACT:Rupert Shortt
DESCRIPTION:On 28th November at 1pm Dr Andrew Jackson will give a seminar 
 entitled ‘The Divine Logic of Evolution: Reading Evolutionary Biology th
 rough the Lens of Maximus the Confessor’s Logoi Cosmology’.\n\nA light
  sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Shasha Suite\, Woolf Bu
 ilding\, Madingley Road Cambridge.\n\n*Abstract*\n\nMaximus the Confessor\
 , the 6th-7th Century Byzantine monk and theologian\, is renowned for his 
 exposition of creation in terms of the logoi\, the refracted Logos (‘Wor
 d’) of John Chapter 1 and the ‘rational principles’ of Greek philoso
 phy. In recent years\, some scholars have hinted at a certain resonance be
 tween Maximus’ logoi cosmology and biological evolution. Based on a clos
 e reading of Maximus\, I argue that such resonance is indeed justified\, w
 hich helps to articulate a distinctly ‘immanentist’ or ‘incarnationa
 l’ view of divine action within evolution. There are\, however\, some no
 table dissonances between the logoi and evolution which need addressing\, 
 for which I offer some possible (and neglected) solutions drawn from Maxim
 us and the Eastern Orthodox tradition more broadly. Of the practical appli
 cations that arise from this research\, I will focus on one: the need for 
 a greater recognition of the theophanic potential of the particular\, the 
 divergent and the transitional in evolution\, as against recent trends in 
 theological discussions of evolution that tend to privilege the universal\
 , the convergent\, and the terminal.
LOCATION:Shasha Suite\, Woolf Building\, Westminster College
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