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A multinational team of scholars focuses on the interface between Christian doctrine and evolutionary scientific research, exploring the theological consequences for the doctrines of original sin, the image of God, and the problem of evil. Moving past the misperception that science and faith are irreconcilable, the book compares alternative models to those that have generated faith-science conflict and equips students, pastors, and anyone interested in origins to develop a critical and scientifically informed orthodox faith.

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Philosophie et théologie

Christian theology

History of science

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	17 juillet 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493406586
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Title Page
Copyright Page
© 2018 by Stanley P. Rosenberg
Published by Baker Academic
a division of Baker Publishing Group
PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
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Ebook edition created 2018
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
ISBN 978-1-4934-0658-6
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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“This is not just another book on theology and evolution, but a serious attempt by well-established and emerging scholars to grapple with the most pressing theological issues that result from that engagement. By confining the discussion to key debates on the image of God, original sin, and the problem of evil from a range of different perspectives, the editors have achieved that rare combination of theological depth with philosophical sophistication in engagement with historical and contemporary perspectives on evolutionary theory. This is not only a book for serious scholars in this field, but—given that it encourages open and honest debate—it is also one that will be extremely useful for teaching and deserves to be fully embedded in theology courses as well as those in theology and science.”
— Celia Deane-Drummond , professor of theology and director of the Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing, University of Notre Dame
“Too often reading books on science and religion by multiple authors feels like walking into a cramped room where everyone is shouting. This book feels more like entering a big open hall where there is room to breathe and room to think. It is not that anything goes—Christian theology has boundaries, what the contributors to this volume call “doctrines.” Doctrines such as the image of God, the universality of sin among humans, and the goodness of God have not been overturned by the science of evolution. But evolution has called into question certain ways of explaining those doctrines. The contributors to the book show that the Christian tradition has the resources to explore different ways of explaining these doctrines without leaving the building. They are to be commended for drawing us further into that space.”
— Jim Stump , senior editor, BioLogos
Contents
Cover i
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Endorsements v
INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS 1
1. Making Space in a Post-Darwinian World: Theology and Science in Apposition 3
Stanley P. Rosenberg
2. Distinguishing Doctrine and Theological Theory: Creating Space at the Interface of Modern Science and the Christian Tradition 11
Benno van den Toren
PART 1 THE IMAGE OF GOD AND EVOLUTION 27
Michael Burdett, editor
3. Questions, Challenges, and Concerns for the Image of God 33
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
4. The Biblical Text and a Functional Account of the Imago Dei 48
Mark Harris
5. Will the Structural Theory of the Image of God Survive Evolution? 64
Aku Visala
6. The Imago Dei as Relational Love 79
Thomas Jay Oord
7. The Imago Dei as the End of Evolution 92
Ted Peters
Conclusion to Part 1 107
Michael Burdett
PART 2 ORIGINAL SIN AND EVOLUTION 111
Benno van den Toren, editor
8. Questions, Challenges, and Concerns for Original Sin 117
Gijsbert van den Brink
9. Augustine, Original Sin, and the Naked Ape 130
Andrew Pinsent
10. Adam as Federal Head of Humankind 143
C. John Collins
11. The Irenaean Approach to Original Sin through Christ’s Redemption 160
Andrew M. McCoy
12. Original Sin and the Coevolution of Nature and Culture 173
Benno van den Toren
13. A Nonhistorical Approach: The Universality of Sin without the Originating Sin 187
Christopher M. Hays
Conclusion to Part 2 203
Benno van den Toren
PART 3 EVIL AND EVOLUTION 209
Michael Lloyd, editor
14. Questions, Challenges, and Concerns for the Problem of Evil 213
C. Ben Mitchell
15. Can Nature Be “Red in Tooth and Claw” in the Thought of Augustine? 226
Stanley P. Rosenberg
16. Theodicy, Fall, and Adam 244
Michael Lloyd
17. The Fallenness of Nature: Three Nonhuman Suspects 262
Michael Lloyd
18. An Irenaean Approach to Evil 280
Richard Swinburne
19. “Free-Process” and “Only Way” Arguments 293
Christopher Southgate
20. Non-Identity Theodicy 306
Vince Vitale
Conclusion to Part 3 326
Michael Lloyd
Bibliography 331
Contributors 357
Scripture and Ancient Writings Index 361
Name Index 365
Subject Index 371
Back Cover 376
Introductory Essays
1 Making Space in a Post-Darwinian World
Theology and Science in Apposition
Stanley P. Rosenberg
Walking south along Parks Road in Oxford, UK, one comes across a pair of buildings that set the stage for this book. These two important buildings in the Oxford landscape stand in apposition (but not opposition) across the road from each other. On the east side is the Oxford Museum of Natural History, built of stone and begun in 1855. 1 Engraved over the neo-Gothic stone-arch entry sits an angel, holding a book and a dividing cell. The book represents one or more possible uses of the book as an icon in Christian theology—representing either the Bible, the book of life, or the two books analogy (the book of nature and the book of revelation). The cell directs one’s attention to the work of a scientist. Studying life is affirmed at the highest level, by an angel representing the work and message of the divine. In this building in 1860 Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce held their infamous debate about Darwin’s interpretation of evolution, which for the first time gave a cogent explanation of the mechanism of evolution (the general notion of evolution was not a novel or very contentious one in the nineteenth century). A compelling idea now had explanatory power but did not possess fully verifiable evidence, and it raised massive questions about our understanding of human origins and natural history. This was not the first time such a lag between inference and evidence had occurred. Scientific progress is replete with such stories: one of the most well known of these is Galileo’s inferences supporting Copernicus, which could not be proven until the early nineteenth century, when technological advancements finally achieved the ability to create sufficiently clear, powerful telescopes and verify the transit of Venus across the sun.
Oxford’s Museum of Natural History offers an architectural style directly reminiscent of the great British Gothic cathedrals, with an entrance and windows in the Norman style. In addition, it has a monastic kitchen (from the abbot’s kitchen at Glastonbury) built alongside to represent chemistry, and its internal structure features a grand open space with columns and carvings like a Christian basilica and other Gothic buildings. 2 The style was employed not to mock or replace the church but to be a testament to the enduring connection its designers found between the book of life and the book of nature. So, this building—presided over by an angel of God and in an architectural style emphasizing the spiritual—offered the stage for one of the oft-reported, and frequently mispresented, debates between science and religion. Or was it such a debate?
But before reaching the museum, one comes to the other building, on the west side of the street: the chapel of Keble College, Oxford. Keble College was built to commemorate John Keble, the founder of the Oxford Movement, a reform movement within the Church of England that emphasized the sacramental nature of worship, sacramental theology, and the preparation of priests for service in parishes for the urban and rural poor, which the Church of England had seemingly ignored. Soon after the college’s founding, a chapel was added—full of color, life, and images of the life of the church. A side chapel, added later, houses one of the famous paintings of religious life from the period, The Light of the World by Holman Hunt. Unlike the museum across the street, built of dressed stone in the manner of Oxford’s stately buildings, Keble College and its chapel are built of ordinary brick but with flourishes of design with blue and white bricks. The college’s architectural design matches the vision for sacrament and beauty with the vision of serving the ordinary, the poor, and the overlooked (brickwork was viewed as ordinary and plebeian in contrast to the grandeur of stone). A college founded for the teaching of theology and the formation of priests to serve the urban poor (which quickly added the full science curriculum, to be sure), built out of a deep understanding of religious vocation, stands across the street from a natural history museum presided over by an angel of God welcoming the faithful into its exhibits. What an interesting if not ironic sense of apposition!
Yet this is not the most interesting part of the story of these two buildings. To le