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Human origins and the image of God : essays in honor of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen / edited by Christopher Lilley and Daniel J. Pedersen.

Contributor(s): Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel (Jacobus Wentzel), 1942- [honouree.] | Lilley, Christopher, 1988- [editor.] | Pedersen, Daniel J [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017Description: xiv, 322 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802875143 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0802875149 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Theological anthropology -- Christianity | Human evolution -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Image of God | Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel (Jacobus Wentzel), 1942-DDC classification: 233 LOC classification: BT701.3 | .H863 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
M. Craig Barnes -- Christopher Lilley and Daniel J. Pedersen -- J. Wentzel van Huyssteen and interdisciplinary theology / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- The acquisition of human uniqueness: how we got from there to here, and how we did it so fast / Ian Tattersall -- Religion as a technology of entanglement: dealing with the beyond of entanglements / Ian Hodder -- Imago Dei and animal domestication: cognitive-evolutionary perspectives on human uniqueness and the Imago Dei / Justin L. Barrett and Tyler S. Greenway -- The emergence of religion: what evolution, the human niche, and imagination can tell us / Agustín Fuentes -- The religious sense: human uniqueness, human evolution, and the origins of symbolism and culture / Richard Potts -- Persons and humans: the dignity and distinctiveness of the human person / Keith Ward -- Axiological sensitivity: its origins, dynamic structures, and significance for theological anthropology / Wesley J. Wildman -- Human evolution: some tough questions for the Christian / Michael Ruse -- Science, technology, and aesthetics: the manifestation of adaptive cognitive fluidity in humans / John Hedley Brooke -- Moral origins and evolutionary ethics: navigating the maze in conversation with J. Wentzel van Huyssteen / Celia Deane-Drummond -- What makes theology theology?: conviction, communicability, and comprehensibility / Michael Welker -- Are we alone? And does it matter?: the narrative of human particularity / David Fergusson -- Postfoundationalism and the ethic of responsibility: duet or duel? / D. Etienne de Villiers -- Living with strangers?: on constructing ethical discourses / Dirk J. Smit.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword / M. Craig Barnes -- Preface / Christopher Lilley and Daniel J. Pedersen -- Introduction : J. Wentzel van Huyssteen and interdisciplinary theology / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- Part 1. Natural Scientists. The acquisition of human uniqueness: how we got from there to here, and how we did it so fast / Ian Tattersall -- Religion as a technology of entanglement: dealing with the beyond of entanglements / Ian Hodder -- Imago Dei and animal domestication: cognitive-evolutionary perspectives on human uniqueness and the Imago Dei / Justin L. Barrett and Tyler S. Greenway -- The emergence of religion: what evolution, the human niche, and imagination can tell us / Agustín Fuentes -- The religious sense: human uniqueness, human evolution, and the origins of symbolism and culture / Richard Potts -- Part 2. Philosophers and historians. Persons and humans: the dignity and distinctiveness of the human person / Keith Ward -- Axiological sensitivity: its origins, dynamic structures, and significance for theological anthropology / Wesley J. Wildman -- Human evolution: some tough questions for the Christian / Michael Ruse -- Science, technology, and aesthetics: the manifestation of adaptive cognitive fluidity in humans / John Hedley Brooke -- Part 3. Theologians. Moral origins and evolutionary ethics: navigating the maze in conversation with J. Wentzel van Huyssteen / Celia Deane-Drummond -- What makes theology theology?: conviction, communicability, and comprehensibility / Michael Welker -- Are we alone? And does it matter?: the narrative of human particularity / David Fergusson -- Postfoundationalism and the ethic of responsibility: duet or duel? / D. Etienne de Villiers -- Living with strangers?: on constructing ethical discourses / Dirk J. Smit.

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