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The Philosophical and Theological Relevance of Evolutionary Anthropology
This book explores the philosophical and theological significance of evolutionary anthropology and includes diverse approaches to the relationship between evolution, culture, and religion. Particular emphasis is placed on the work of Michael Tomasello, who contributes an opening chapter that tackles the role of religion in his natural history of human thinking and human morality. The first section of the book considers the philosophical foundations of evolutionary anthropology and shows that evolutionary anthropology is open to a multitude of philosophical analyses. The second part offers theological perspectives on the relationship between evolutionary and theological anthropology and between evolution and religion. The volume also reflects more broadly on the complex relationship between religion and science in the contexts of late-modern societies. It makes a significant contribution to the religion and science debate and offers performative evidence that an interdisciplinary discussion between theologians, philosophers, and natural scientists is feasible.
Progress in Theology
This book explores the intriguing relationship between theology, science, and the ideal of progress from a variety of perspectives. While seriously discussing the obstacles and pitfalls related to the notion of progress in theology, it argues that there are in fact many different kinds of progress in theology. It considers how this sheds positive light on what theologians do and suggests that other disciplines in the humanities can equally profit from these ideas. The chapters provide tools for making further progress in theology, featuring detailed case studies to show how progress in theology works in practice and connecting with the role and place of theology in the University. The book rearticulates in multiple ways theology’s distinctive voice at the interface of science and religion.
The Concept of Body in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
This volume of the series "Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses" investigates the roots of the concept of "body" in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Body and being a created being stands in the focus of all the thre major monotheistic faiths. It is not just by the christian idea of man's likeness to God that indicates that the human body is a central object of religious thinking, both culturally and theologically charged. Here, the body stands in the crossfire of terms like "pure" and "unpure", "sacred" and "profane", "male" and "femal". And besides the theological controversies, everyday experiences like sexuality, gender equality and how to dispose of the own body (and that of oth...
"The Bold Arcs of Salvation History"
This book offers the first in-depth treatment in English language of Habermas’s long-awaited work on religion, Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie, published in 2019. Charting the contingent origins and turning points of occidental thinking through to the current "postmetaphysical" stage, the two volumes provide striking insights into the intellectual streams and conflicts in which core components of modern self-understanding have been forged. The encounter of Greek metaphysics with biblical monotheism has led to a theology of history as salvation, expanding in bold arcs from Adam’s Fall to Christ and the Last Judgement. The reconstruction of key turns in the relationship between faith ...
Julian of Norwich and the Ecological Crisis
This book presents ecological insights drawn from a reading of Julian of Norwich, considering how effectively she can help us in our current plight. The argument is that to address the ecological crisis with the mindset that created it will only cause more problems, and that to really undo the harm humanity has done and continues to do will take a transformation of selfhood and hence of perception, from the Gestell, technological self that is the child of the Enlightenment to the porous self that we truly are, underneath our buffered, separated, controlling and lonely exterior. The author suggests Julian of Norwich’s text Revelations of Divine Love has the power to effect this transformati...
God and the Book of Nature
God and the Book of Nature develops theological views of the natural sciences in light of the recent theological turn in science-and-religion scholarship and the ‘science-engaged theology’ movement. Centered around the Book of Nature metaphor, it brings together contributions by theologians, natural scientists, and philosophers based in Europe and North America. They provide an exploration of complementary (and even contesting) readings of the Book of Nature, particularly in light of the vexing questions that arise around essentialism and unity in the field of science and religion. Taking an experimental and open-ended approach, the volume does not attempt to unify the readings into a single ‘plot’ that defines the Book of Nature, still less a single ‘theology of nature’, but instead it represents a variety of hermeneutical stances. Overall the book embraces a constructive theological attitude toward the modern sciences, and makes significant contributions to the research literature in science and religion.
Religion und Lebensform
Der Band greift zwei für europäische Gesellschaften der Spätmoderne gegenläufige Charakteristika auf: Auf der einen Seite sieht sich ein Mensch, sobald er sich selbst zum Gegenstand der Reflexion erhebt, auf eine Alterität (die traditionell religiös mit "Gott" gedeutet wird) verwiesen. Auf der anderen Seite wird der Stellenwert religiöser Geltungsansprüche im öffentlichen Bereich (etwa an Parlamenten, Gerichten oder Schulen) zunehmend eingeschränkt und mehr und mehr zur Privatsache. Der Autor versucht diese Ambivalenz unter Rückgriff auf das Werk von Jürgen Habermas aufzulösen. Konkret gilt es die für Habermas prägenden Unterscheidungen von Ethik und Moral bzw. Glauben und Wissen zu einer Religiösen Epistemologie zu verknüpfen mit dem Ziel, den Stellenwert bzw. die Tragweite von religiösen Überzeugungen zu klären.
Vorsehung und Handeln Gottes
Kann heute noch verantwortbar von einem Handeln Gottes in der Welt gesprochen werden? Ist die Vorsehung ein dogmatischer Traktat, der unverändert gelehrt werden kann? Oder sind die Anfragen zu groß geworden, um in einer naturwissenschaftlich geprägten Welt und nach den Katastrophen des 20. Jahrhunderts schlichtweg vom Handeln Gottes und der Vorsehung zu sprechen? Und gibt es diesbezüglich wesentliche Unterschiede zwischen den oftmals kontrastierten analytischen und kontinentalen Ansätzen in der Debatte? Forschende unterschiedlicher Perspektiven in Theologie und Philosophie kommen in diesem Band über diese Fragen ins Gespräch.
Religion als Produkt der Evolution?
Der Mensch ist ein evolutives Wesen - also ist der Mensch auch ein religiöses Wesen? Evolutionsanthropologische Theoriebildungen legen diesen Schluss nah. Sie führen in ein interdisziplinäres Spannungsfeld zwischen natürlicher Selektion, kognitiver Disposition und bewusster Sinnsuche. Auf sozialwissenschaftlicher und erkenntnisphilosophischer Grundlage reflektiert Hannah Judith die Herausforderungen, die daraus für die Theologie und Evolutionsanthropologie gleichermaßen erwachsen. Sie fragt nach der erkenntnistheoretischen Verortung religiöser Vollzüge im Evolutionsprozess - und stellt so die evolutionsanthropologische Relativierung religiöser Sinnsuche als theologieproduktiven Faktor heraus.
Tidewater to Texas
"Lois Blanche Scurlock was born in Mt. Pleasant, Texas on 20 Nov 1900 to Claude Leslie Scurlock and his wife Lois Blanche Rose. Lois married Christopher C. Corley on 11 Jan 1921 in Mt. Pleasant, Texas and died on 17 Jan 1970 at Clarksdale, Mississippi. Her Scurlock antecedants have been traced to immigrant Michael Scurlock [ca. 1645-1699] who lived in the Northern Neck of Virginia in the latter part of the 17th century. According to family tradition, Michael was from Wales, though he has not yet been found in records of that country"--Page [3].
