Hello, eastsider. You can get even closer to the Church than the Greeks. That venerable Augustine was a spherical earther. He was also a bit of an evolutionist.Hello, Nebullis! In what sense was Augustine an evolutionist? At first glance, it seems an odd position to take for a double (absolute) predestinarian.
In the sense that God, as the prime mover, first cause, etc. set things in motion, but built in processes for the evolutionary development from that time forward.