Revelation is God's Word addressed to the human being and so
speaks of God in relation to the person and the world.
Revelation can therefore only be fully understood, proclaimed
and lived through an encounter with the world and its
conceptions. To understand the evolution of human consciousness
and the creation of the soul, we look to the sources of
revelation (scripture and tradition) in dialogue with secular
anthropology. The latter's paradigm of development and growth
is not foreign to the former's understanding of conversion and
growth in grace . The image of God, which characterises the
human person, is shown to be an emergent likeness, which is
created and drawn to its fullness by God. This accounts for
Pius XII' s insistence that the soul is created immediately by
God, who is responsible for the physical dynamics that bring
forth consciousness and the personal dynamics that empower the
human soul to develop.Philosophy Practical andSystematic TheologyM.Th (Systematic Theology
