Salmanticensis

Faculty of Theology

Pontifical University of Salamanca

 

Theology of creation: God’s action in the world

 

The scientific understanding of the word and an ecological vision focused on the life of the planet currently raise the permanent question about God’s relationship with his creation. Likewise, the spirituality that encourages contemporary ecology tends to present the world as a space of spiritual experience. From a theological point of view, how can we think that the world is a place of encounter with God? Can God act in the world? How He acts?  What vision of reality is there in the background?

These questions have been addressed mainly in the dialogue between science and faith, taking shape in the debate on creation and evolution. It is probably a context that has already given what it could give and some aspects have been exhausted. Can the theme of creation and God’s intervention in the world and in history be thought of in another way? This is a topic of study that we propose for a monograph in the journal Salmanticensis. It affects various aspects, so it has a multidisciplinary character. The cosmology of natural sciences and philosophy, christology, anthropology and sacramentology, among other, are areas of research that can provide new elements to think about the relationship between God and creation.

We invite colleagues to submit research articles that can help delve deeper into some of these aspects, from various perspectives, in order to enrich theological knowledge and reflection on the understanding of creation.

 

Themes and perspectives

Cosmology and theology

The creative act of God

God’s relationship with the world

Creation, incarnation and salvation

The sacramental being of the world

Understanding of creation and spirituality

Ecology and theological vision of life

 

Monograph

Submission deadline: January 15, 2025

Instructions for authors: Maximum length of 12,000 words and more details in instructions for submissions (https://revistas.upsa.es/index.php/salmanticensis/about/submissions)

Editors:

Emilio-José Justo Domínguez, Pontifical University of Salamanca

Serafín Béjar Bacas, Loyola-Andalucía University, Granada

Carolina Blázquez Casado, San Dámaso Ecclesiastical University, Madrid

For further information, please contact journal’s management: salmanticensis@upsa.es