Does God Need Us?

Does God Need Us?
Rethinking the God-World Relationship with Teilhard de Chardin

Wednesday, May 21
4:30 – 6:00 PM (CT)
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Classical theology states that God freely creates, that is, God creates with no other motive than God’s own desire and delight.  God is in relationship with us but God does not depend on us.  Teilhard de Chardin reflected on God’s relationship to the world and concluded that God and world are in mutual relationship.  God is not so much delighted by the world but dependent on the world for God’s own fullness of life.   We will explore Teilhard’s insights with regard to the significance of the cosmic Christ, Christian life and the Church.

Format: Zoom & In-Person at Dominican University | Ilia Delio will be in-person at Dominican University
Lund Auditorium
Co-sponsored with the Siena Center of Dominican University
Cost: $10
Registration will be available soon on the Siena Center website.

Facilitator: Ilia Delio, OSF, Ph.D.

Ilia Delio, OSF, Ph.D. holds the Josephine C. Connelly Chair in Theology at Villanova University. Her area of research is Systematic-Constructive theology, with an emphasis on Religion and Science.  She is the author of twenty-four books including The Not-yet God, The Hours of the Universe, winner of the 2022 Gold Nautilus Book Award, and Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness, a finalist for the 2019 Michael Ramsey prize.  She lectures nationally and internationally on topics in Science and Religion is founder of the Center for Christogenesis, an online spiritual and educational resource for the integration of science, religion and culture.