The Garden of God: A Theological CosmologyFor Garca Rivera our spiritual life with God is less about building the City of God than creating the Garden of God. The Garden of God takes Christ's self revelation that he came to bring us life and "life abundant" as a clue to that enduring, habitable world. While Teilhard de Chardin focused on the growth of consciousness as the essence of the evolution of matter being raised to the spiritual, Garca Rivera probes the conditions and process that lead