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The Philosophical and Theological Relevance of Evolutionary Anthropology: Engagements with Michael Tomasello book cover

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The Philosophical and Theological Relevance of Evolutionary Anthropology Engagements with Michael Tomasello

Edited By Martin Breul, Caroline Helmus Copyright 2023
206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1 Introduction

Martin Breul and Caroline Helmus

2 Some Thoughts on Evolution, Culture, and Religion

Michael Tomasello

Part I The Philosophical Foundations of Evolutionary Anthropology

3 Michael Tomasello’s Vision of Human Uniqueness and the Place of Human Religion

Wesley Wildman

4 How Transcendental Aristotelianism can integrate Tomasello’s Natural History of Morality

Christian Illies

5 Pointing as Intending. On the Social and Cognitive Significance of Deictic Communication

Henning Tegtmeyer

Part II Theological Perspectives on Evolutionary Anthropology

6 The Nature of Humanity and the Origins of Religion: Contributions from Michael Tomasello

Marcia Pally

7 Tomasello and Kant. Religious Faith and the Evolution of Morality––Empirical Support for

Kant’s ‘Postulates of Practical Reason’?

Martin Breul

8 Embodied Image of God. Evolutionary Anthropology in Theological Perspective

Gregor Etzelmüller

9 Cultural Learning, Embodiment and Relationality in Evolutionary and Theological

Anthropology

Caroline Helmus

Part III Broadening the View: Further Reflections on Religion, Science, and Modernity

10 Deficiency Guarantee? Jürgen Habermas on the Anthropological and Evolutionary Function

of the Sacred Complex

Thomas M. Schmidt

11 Between Relevance and Redundancy. Thoughts on the Profile of Theology in the Ever

-Accelerating Late Modernity

Anne Weber

12 Excess and Evolution. The Transgressive Sources of (R)Evolution

Sarah Rosenhauer

Biography

Martin Breul is Substitute Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute of Catholic Theology, the University of Dortmund, Germany.

Caroline Helmus is a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Catholic Theology, the University of Tübingen, Germany.

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