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Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Note on the Physical Union Between the Humanity of Christ and the Faithful in the Course of Their Sanctification -- On the Notion of Creative Transformation -- Note on the Modes of Divine Action in the Universe -- Fall, Redemption, and Geocentrism -- Note on Some Possible Historical Representations of Original Sin -- Pantheism and Christianity -- Christology and Evolution -- How I Believe -- Some General Views on the Essence of Christianity -- Christ the Evolver -- Introduction to the Christian Life -- Christianity and Evolution: Suggestions for a New Theology -- Reflections on Original Sin -- The Christian Phenomenon -- Monogenism and Monophyletism: An Essential Distinction -- What the World is Looking for from the Church of God at this Moment -- The Contingence of the Universe and Man's Zest for Survival -- A Sequel to the Problem of Human Origins: The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds -- The God of Evolution -- My Litany -- Back Matter -- Index -- Books by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin available in Harvest paperback editions from Harcourt, Inc

Jacques Ellul blends politics, theology, history, and exposition in this analysis of the relationship between political anarchy and biblical faith. On the one hand, suggests Ellul, anarchists need to understand that much of their criticism of Christianity applies only to the form of religion that developed, not to biblical faith. Christians, on the other hand, need to look at the biblical texts and not reject anarchy as a political option, for it seems closest to biblical thinking. Ellul here defines anarchy as the nonviolent repudiation of authority. He looks at the Bible as the source of anarchy (in the sense of nondomination, not disorder), working through the Old Testament history, Jesus` ministry, and finally the early church`s view of power as reflected in the New Testament writings."With the verve and the gift of trenchant simplification to which we have been accustomed, Ellul lays bare the fallacy that Christianity should normally be the ally of civil authority." - John Howard Yoder.