Current problems such as ecology, technology and futurology again raise fundamental questions concerning our place in the world and of human responsibility for the worlds history and point to the need for a more adequate synthesis of the insights won piece meal over the years prior to the Vatican Council. This book discusses the problems raised for the Christian doctrine of creation from the world of philosophy and the positive sciences. The development of new methodologies makes possible a fresh reading both of Scripture and of the documents of the Church later theological tradition and opens the way for a new synthesis in relation to a contemporary world-view.