The “Creative Hypostatic Union”: a Contemporary Theological Discovery on the Origin of Man in the Light of Ancient Christology, Medieval Metaphysics and the Theory of Evolution

Abstract

This paper will expose the novel concept of “creative hypostatic union”, explained in line with the Christology of the Council of Chalcedon. This notion is shaped by the theological challenge posed by the Anthropology of the Second Vatican Council and by the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which contrast both with the traditional interpretation of original sin and with the foundations of Scholastic theology. It is argued that original sin was a genetic crisis deliberately introduced into evolutionary biology by superhuman creatures in order to separate the origin of Man from the act of the Incarnation of Christ. Thus, contrary to the claims of St. Thomas Aquinas, the union of human and divine natures in the person of the Son of God is not created, but creative, for the very act of the Incarnation of Christ was to create our human nature as a culmination of the process of Hominization, ultimately frustrated by original sin until the event of the Immaculate Conception.

KEY-WORDS: Evolution. Incarnation. Metaphysics. Anthropology. St. Thomas Aquinas.