Abstract
AbstractJuan Luis Segundo is widely known as a liberation theologian but his use of evolutionary categories to develop a theology of grace is little appreciated. Challenging the pessimistic logic of the second law of thermodynamics, Segundo defines evolution as an ecological project which results in the creation of what is new. Displaying a logic that is dialectical but not linear, the evolutionary project has as itstelosthe continual manifestation of freedom (or whatever is analogous to it) in a universe which, because of the high visibility of suffering, appears tragic and seemingly futile. In the human sphere, freedom is manifested wherever action integrates random elements like suffering and negativity to function efficaciously as love. The sign or mark of evolutionary change which accompanies creation of what is new, freedom is not the cause of love but is manifested gratuitously within it. Love is essential to God's eschatological will to create a world that is good. Wherever it is found, love enjoys ontological causality in the eyes of God and contributes to realization of theeschaton. There, definitively manifested in glory, the blossoming of freedom that accompanies love will be revealed for what it has been all along: substance of a new creation that is the eschatological materialization of grace.
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