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Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Dialogues in Wisdom, Humility and Grace book cover

1st Edition

Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology Dialogues in Wisdom, Humility and Grace

Edited By Celia Deane-Drummond, Agustín Fuentes Copyright 2020
280 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge
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This book sets out some of the latest scientific findings around the evolutionary development of religion and faith and then explores their theological implications. This unique combination of perspectives raises fascinating questions about the characteristics that are considered integral for a flourishing social and religious life and allows us to start to ask where in the evolutionary record... Read more

List of Contributors

Introduction: Dialogues in Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology

Celia Deane-Drummond, Agustín Fuentes

Part I: Mapping the Terrain

1 Setting the Stage: Developing the Human Niche across the Pleistocene

Agustín Fuentes

2 The Emergence of Complexity and Novelty in the Human Fossil Record

Rebecca Rogers Ackermann, Lauren Schroeder

Part II: Wisdom

Introductory Commentary: Wisdom

Celia Deane-Drummond, Wentzel van Huyssteen

3 On Homo naledi and its Significance in Evolutionary Anthropology

John Hawks, Lee Berger

4 Becoming Wise: What Can Anthropologists Say about the Evolution of Human Wisdom?

Marc Kissel

5 On the Origin of Symbols: Archaeology, Semiotics, and Self-Transcendence

Andrew Robinson

Part III: Humility

Introductory Commentary: Humility

Wendy Black

6 Archaeological Evidence for Human Social Learning and Sociality in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa

Jayne Wilkins

7 An Animal in Need of Wisdom: Theological Anthropology and the Origins of Humility and Wisdom

Jan-Olav Henriksen

8 The Loss of Innocence in the Deep Past: Wisdom, Humility, and Grace within a Developing Understanding of the Emergence of Human Moral Emotions

Penny Spikins

9 Searching for the Soul of Homo: The Virtue of Humility in Deep Evolutionary Time

Celia Deane-Drummond

Part IV: Grace

Introductory Commentary: Grace

Celia Deane-Drummond, Agustín Fuentes

10 What Difference Does Grace Make? An Exploration of the Concept of Grace in the Theological Anthropology of Karl Rahner

Karen Kilby, J. Matthew Ashley

11 Grace in Evolution

Oliver Davies

12 Continuities and Discontinuities in Human Evolution

Jonathan Marks

Biography

Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, UK.　



Agustín Fuentes is the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor and Departmental Chair of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

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