Special creation

In Christian theology, special creation is a term with varying meanings dependent on context.

In creationism, the term refers to a belief that the universe and all life in it originated in its present form by fiat or divine decree. In Christianity, this is liturgically celebrated as the Feast of Creation.

Catholicism uses the phrase "special creation" in two different senses:

  • in the context of theistic evolution to refer to the "special creation of humans", a point of hominization where evolved near-human animals were given souls by God, and became fully human; this belief is also called special transformism by some scholars.
  • to refer to the doctrine of immediate or special creation of each human soul
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