Kagawa Toyohiko (1888-1960) was a creative genius in science in showing how the whole created universe is inter-connected and dependent on a Creator God. Kagawa brilliantly shows six thesis:
1. There is purpose to the cosmos.
2. Cosmic purpose is directed towards life.
3. The purpose of life is directed towards mind (consciousness).
4. The individual mind is social and directed towards construction.
5. The social mind oriented to construction is en route to a historical evolutionary development and
an awakening to cosmic consciousness.
6. This orientation awaits the assistance of the Spirit that made creative evolution possible.
Like Teilhard de Chardin, Kagawa believed everything finds its telos or purpose in Christ. Kagawa presents seven organizational purposes of the universe in a unified arrangement as follows:
1. Energy-----directional purpose-----------design purpose
2. Change-----adaptational purpose---------organizational purpose
3. Growth-----progressive purpose----------catalytic purpose
4. Selection----sorting purpose---------------discriminating purpose
5. Law---------contractual purpose----------genetic purpose
6. Life---------impulsive purpose----------- instinctual purpose
7. Purpose----self-determining purpose----self-conscious purpose
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