Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness - Catholicity in an Evolving Universe

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Brief Description: Ilia Delio introduces a new word, catholicity, which is destined to become as discussed and familiar in this century as the word Catholic was in the 2nd century. A new paradigm for being Catholic: catholicity, a conscious awareness of how everything - the sun, moon, starts, Kepler, Saturn, maple trees, muddy rivers, amoeba, bacteria and all people of the earth - for a whole. Catholicity is a dynamic, spiritual quality of being Catholic that literally means "becoming whole." It is an inner principle which first burst forth in the life of Jesus and has the power to reconnect all the dimensions of life: spirituality, religion, the new sciences, culture, and society. Catholicity is not an apologetics but an emerging unitive spirituality that is being expressed by Pope Francis and is manifested in the lives of sincere seekers everywhere. It is animating religion in a new direction and infusing key aspects of spirituality with the new sciences, and every aspect of society and culture. Catholicity is a spirit of love, a love of the Spirit, which resists ideology and attracts new followers. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom" (2 Cor 3:17). Catholicity makes all things new. "If any be in Christ he is a new creature. The old way of living disappears. A new Way of living comes into existence" (2 Cor 5:17) Contributor Bio:  Delio, Ilia Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, a member of the Franciscan Servants of the Holy Child Jesus, North Plainfield, New Jersey, serves as an associate professor of ecclesial history and Franciscan studies at Washington Theological Union (WTU), Washington, DC. She is a member of the CFIT and director of the Franciscan Center at WTU, where she coordinates an annual symposium on Franciscan theology. She is a recognized scholar on the thought of St. Bonaventure. She is the author of, A Franciscan View of Creation (FRANCISCAN INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS, 2003).