ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relation between evolution and the Christian story of salvation history; the story of the 'Fall' of humanity, and the restoration of its relationship to God through Christ. The coordination of evolution and salvation history has been too much influenced by a background belief in progress. The theory of evolution propounded by Darwin has always aroused mixed religious reactions. The nature of the relationship between evolution and Christian doctrine can easily be misconstrued. Evolutionary Christology can be placed among the specialist approaches to elucidating the work of Christ. The evolution of humanity seems that each stage of human development is ambiguous as far as humanity's relationship to God is concerned. Two people whose approach to the evolution of consciousness will be considered carefully are C. G. Jung and Rudolf Steiner. There is an interesting, specifically psychological approach to the evolution of consciousness stemming from C. G. Jung.
