The Christian Mutation: Why God Cannot be Static

Join us Thursday, December 4, at 5 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis webinar with Ilia Delio.

Our communities are hemorrhaging. Racism persists. Gun violence claims the innocent. Immigrants are scapegoated. Nationalism wraps itself in the flag and claims the name of Christ. If religion is, as Tillich argued, the substance of culture, then our cultural substance is corrupted. But the question is more urgent than diagnosis: What if Christianity abandoned its political vocation at the very beginning? What if, in the early centuries, we traded the revolutionary God of Jesus for a philosophical abstraction—a timeless, immutable, apolitical principle governing us from a distance?

This talk will ask: Who is the God of Jesus of Nazareth, the God who transformed human consciousness through radical mutuality, vulnerability, and love? Sr. Ilia will discuss how this God is fundamentally relational, genuinely becoming, and deeply embedded in the world’s suffering and creativity—offering us a path beyond both religious nationalism and secular despair. She will then turn to Teilhard de Chardin’s notion of love as the evolutionary force through which God emerges within creation, and through which a genuinely new political order might yet be born.

The recording will be available to all registrants within one week of the event.