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U.S.A.  \nContents  \n1 Evolution and Karma 1  \n2 Evolution as Universal 9  \n3 The Moral Dimension of Evolution 25  \n4 Grace Surprises 40  \n5 The Christening of Karma 52  \n6 Karma and Freedom 63  \n7 Evolution, Karma, and Rebirth 70  \n8 Human Sexuality and Evolution 80  \n9 Stages in Spiritual Development 93  \n10 Our Kinship with All Forms of Life 104  \n11 Evolution and God 115  \n12 Evolution and the ʺBlessed Assuranceʺ 125  \n13 Karma, Evolution, and Destiny 134  \nChapter One  \nEvolution and Karma  \nEvolution is not a force but a process: not a cause but a law.  \nJohn Morley. On Compromise  \nWhat avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind, which adjust the relation of all persons to each other, by the mathematical measure of their havings and beings?  \nEmerson. Spiritual Laws  \nIn the course of my teaching and lecturing in universities and other institutions, I have discovered during the past decade or more an increasing interest in the concept of karma. It comes out in discussion at the slightest provocation and indeed sometimes with no detectable provocation at all. It is not always well understood. Too often it is soill understood as to be taken for a kind of fatalism, which it certainly is not, being on the contrary a freewill doctrine, although it is much else besides. Yet, understood well or badly, it commands a lively interest, not least on the part of young people who twenty years ago would not have generally found it so challenging to their outlook on life.  \nThe connection of karma with evolutionary thought is not by any means always immediately apparent to those whom the concept of karma so fascinates. Yet the connection is crucial if karma is to be seen as a deeply spiritual principle at the heart of all things. To those who understand and accept the karmic principle, biological evolution, as Darwin and others have expounded it, is only a pointer to a far more fundamental evolutionary principle in the very mind of God.  \nMost Christians, though by no means all, have come to see no incompatibility between biological evolution and the Bible. Many, however, see the karmic principle as alien to both the Bible and the Church. True, the Sanskrit word karma is unfamiliar, but the concept, as we shall abundantly see, is at the root of the Judaeo-Christian tradition. I wish to argue, in this book that evolution and karma can be christened at the same font. Nor will they have been the first heretical-sounding ideas to have been so received.  \nThe Christian Church’s debt to heretics is incalculably great. The theory of Nicholas Copernicus (1473–1543), the father of modern astronomy, that the sun does not move round the earth but the earth round the sun, was supported by the investigations of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). In February 1616 the consulting theologians of Rome’s Holy  \nOffice condemned the Copernican theory as heretical, since it appeared to be incompatible with certain biblical passages that refer to the sun’s rising and setting and even to the sun’s having stood still for a brief period at Joshua’s command (Joshua 10.12–14) . Shortly after this ecclesiastical condemnation, Galileo was ordered not “to hold teach or defend” the condemned proposition that the earth moves round the sun. For some years Galileo remained silent on the subject, but eventually the publication of his now famous Dialogo in 1630 led to his being handed over to the Inquisition in 1633 and, under threat of torture, forced to recant. He was condemned to imprisonment but released after some months and allowed to return home to Florence. The ban on the Copernican theory, which had caused the work of Copernicus to be put on the Index of Prohibited Books (that is, books that the faithful are not permitted to read without specific permission) was not removed till 17","cbCaieICAvXq364u","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieICAvXq364u","pdf",637886,148,"English","# Contents\n## Evolution and Karma\n## Evolution as Universal\n## The Moral Dimension of Evolution\n## Grace Surprises\n## Karma and Freedom\n## Evolution, Karma, and Rebirth\n## Human Sexuality and Evolution\n## Stages in Spiritual Development\n## Our Kinship with All Forms of Life\n## Evolution and God\n## Evolution and the ʺBlessed Assuranceʺ\n## Karma, Evolution, and Destiny\n## Chapter One: Evolution and Karma","[{\"question\":\"How does the book characterize karma in relation to free will and fatalism?\",\"answer\":\"It rejects karma as a kind of fatalism and instead presents it as a freewill doctrine, while also emphasizing that karma involves more than that.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author link karma to evolutionary thought?\",\"answer\":\"The connection is presented as crucial for viewing karma as a deeply spiritual principle at the heart of all things, extending beyond biological evolution into a more fundamental evolutionary principle.\"},{\"question\":\"What historical examples does the text use to address religion and science compatibility?\",\"answer\":\"It discusses the condemnation of Copernican theory and Galileo’s treatment by church authorities, and contrasts early medieval tensions with later reconciliation, including Thomas Aquinas’s integration of aspects of Aristotle’s science with the Bible.\"}]","The Christening of Karma - Evolution and Karma | PDF",373]