Creation as Incarnation, with Jordan Daniel Wood

Christ as the future of the cosmos

Jordan Daniel Wood covers the Cosmic Christology of Maximus Confessor, the future of human transformation, the secular and transhumanist appropriation of Christian ideas—Teilhard de Chardin, Frank Tipler, Julian Huxley and more.

• Jordan Daniel Wood discusses his upbringing in the Stone-Campbell Movement, and the relationship between that and his current Catholicism.

• Jordan shares insights on the relationship between creation and incarnation in Christian theology, and touches on the complexities of Christology and the nature of Christ's presence in the Eucharist.

• Jordan emphasizes the importance of both tradition and critical inquiry in faith.

• The implications of Christology for understanding creation. Christ's sinlessness and the sinful condition of his flesh.

• The incarnation as an ongoing process of transformation.

• All creation contains the potential for Christ's presence.

• Eschatological transformation involves the entire cosmos, not just individual souls.

• Human nature is not static; it is subject to profound transformation.

• The incarnation challenges our understanding of what it means to be human.

• Secularism reflects vestiges—even the deepest impulses—of Christian thought.

• The logic of incarnation transcends traditional metaphysical boundaries.

• Christology invites us to engage with modernity—and the future.