God's Gift of the Universe

"Significant and helpful...offers the reader a solid foundation for understanding the theology of creation."—Christopher T. Baglow, University of Notre Dame

"God's Gift of the Universe is likely to become the 'gold standard' for works on the theology of creation. Fr O'Callaghan has woven together the best insights on this topic from the scriptures, the Church Fathers and Doctors, theologians from other Christian traditions, scientists, philosophers and magisterial documents. It is the fruit of several decades of dedicated study of the Catholic intellectual tradition. The central thesis, holding the entire study together, is that the Incarnation is the high point of creation."—Tracey Rowland, University of Notre Dame, Australia

"The fruit of many years' teaching, Professor O'Callaghan's study provides an overview of the central elements of the doctrine of creation. Attending to Scripture, tradition and contemporary theology, he proves himself a clear, reliable, and comprehensive guide, while also presenting a series of important constructive proposals. This work will prove invaluable to students and other scholars in a field of growing interest."—David Fergusson, University of Cambridge

"Magisterial in scope and expansive in its range of interlocutors, God's Gift of the Universe is at once deeply ecumenical in spirit and distinctly Roman in its accents. By drawing on the full breadth of the Christian tradition, Paul O'Callaghan has succeeded in crafting a vision of creation that is profoundly catholic in every sense of the term."—Ian A. McFarland, Emory University

"An excellent and original synthesis of traditional scholarship, contemporary theology, and lucid philosophical reasoning. Amid various theoretical attempts to cancel authentic transcendence or conceive the world as an absolute in itself, this book on the notion of creation finds the right balance between the extremes."—Balázs M. Mezei, Corvinus University, Budapest

"What O'Callaghan has produced in this book is a well-researched defense of traditional Church teaching on the doctrine of creation as ongoing presupposition for further study of the entire God-World relationship."—Catholic Books Review