Co-reactors or Co-creators?: Christic Life in an Unfinished Universe

Facilitated by the Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD

Teilhard’s Christogenesis is the message of the Risen Christ inscribed on a world in evolution, yet our world hovers on the brink of death. We are to have faith in this messy world, peace in the heart, a spirit of forgiveness, hope in the future, and a zest for life. The God who is within and “ahead” of us, invites us to build our selves, one another, and the whole earth into a new community. This new community of many different members, bound together in love, is the Christ, and the Christ is the Trinity unfolding in evolution and enfolding our lives. God becomes human and we become God so that Christ is neither only God nor only human but more God than human and more human than God. Christ is the new creation, and we are the Christ; hence the world will become what we become and what we become God will become.  Let go, therefore, and let yourself be loved.

Fee: $75, includes light breakfast, lunch, and snacks.

Part of the Wisdom School 2026-27 season

Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, and an American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, and neuroscience and the import of these for theology.

Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the author of twenty books, including “Care for Creation” (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods), which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009: first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality. Her book “The Emergent Christ” won a third-place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Her recent books include “The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love” (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third-place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Ilia holds two honorary doctorates, one from St. Francis University in 2015, and one from Sacred Heart University in 2020.