Evolution and the fall /
What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates--as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest--then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the ori...
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Beyond Galileo to Chalcedon : resources for reimagining evolution, human origins, and the Fall / William T. Cavanaugh, James K.A. Smith
- I. Mapping the questions :
- Human origins : the scientific story / Darrel R. Falk
- In Adam all die? : questions at the boundary of Niche construction, community evolution, and original sin / Celia Deane-Drummond
- What stands on the Fall? : a philosophical exploration / James K.A. Smith
- II. Biblical studies and theological implications :
- Reading Genesis 3 attentive to human evolution : beyond concordism and non-overlapping magisteria / J. Richard Middleton
- "Adam, what have you done?" : New Testament voices on the origins of sin / Joel B. Green
- The mystery of Adam : a poetic apology for the traditional doctrine / Aaron Riches
- III. Beyond "origins" : cultural implications :
- Being all we should have been and more : the Fall and the quest for perfection / Brent Waters
- On learning to see a fallen and flourishing creation : alternate ways of looking at the world / Norman Wirzba
- IV. Reimagining the conversation : faithful ways forward :
- The fall of the Fall in early modern political theory : the politics of science / William T. Cavanaugh
- Is science-religion conflict always a bad thing? : Augustinian reflections on Christianity and evolution / Peter Harrison.