The Biology Of Sin
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The Biology Of Sin
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Author : Matthew S. Stanford
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2012-01-04
The Biology Of Sin written by Matthew S. Stanford and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-04 with Religion categories.
There are heated discussions happening on the conflict between science and faith. This disagreement tends to focus around three main issues, one of them being what causes our sinful behavior. The intense conflict has to do with biblically defined sinful behaviors and if there just might be a biological predisposition for these behaviors. The Biology of Sin speaks to this debate and hopefully brings some resolution to the conflict. As both a Christian and a neuroscientist, Dr. Stanford has seen scientific knowledge distorted to justify sinful behavior and perhaps more disturbingly, he has seen Christians misuse Scripture to demonize and alienate the very ones they should be reaching out to. He suggests that the underlying cause of this problem in the church is a lack of knowledge, both of basic brain function and scriptural teaching. The Biology of Sin discusses sinful behaviors, including adultery, rage, addiction, and homosexuality, asking of each: What does science say, and what does the Bible say about this behavior? He then attempts to reconcile the fact that biological predispositions do play a role in behavior which the Bible defines as sinful while always emphasizing the authority of God's Holy Word and the abundant grace he has for those struggling with habitual sin.
Doing Without Adam And Eve
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Author : Patricia A. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Theology and the Sciences
Release Date : 2001
Doing Without Adam And Eve written by Patricia A. Williams and has been published by Theology and the Sciences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Religion categories.
In this provocative new addition to the Theology and the Sciences series, Patricia Williams assays the original sin doctrine with a scientific lens and, based on sociobiology, offers an alternative Christian account of human nature's foibles and future. Focusing on the Genesis 2 and 3 account, Williams shows how its "historical" interpretation in early Christianity not only misread the text but derived an idea of being human profoundly at odds with experience and contemporary science. After gauging Christianity's several competing notions of human nature -- Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox -- against contemporary biology, Williams turns to sociobiological accounts of the evolution of human dispositions toward reciprocity and limited cooperation as a source of human good and evil. From this vantage point she offers new interpretations of evil, sin, and the Christian doctrine of atonement. Williams's work, frank in its assessment of traditional misunderstandings, challenges theologians and all Christians to reassess the roots and branches of this linchpin doctrine.
Aquinas Original Sin And The Challenge Of Evolution
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Author : Daniel W. Houck
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-12
Aquinas Original Sin And The Challenge Of Evolution written by Daniel W. Houck and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-12 with History categories.
Drawing on Aquinas, Houck proposes a groundbreaking theory of original sin that is theologically robust and consonant with evolutionary theory.
Sin And Selfish Genes
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Author : Marie Vejrup Nielsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Sin And Selfish Genes written by Marie Vejrup Nielsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Evolution (Biology) categories.
Bew. van PhD dissertation Aarhus University, 2007 o.d.t.: Being human - crisis and solution in grand narratives of humanity : the doctrine of sin in dialogue with evolutionary biology.
The Emergence Of Sin
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Author : Matthew Croasmun
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Emergence Of Sin written by Matthew Croasmun and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Religion categories.
We can have a sense that when we try to do right by one another, we aren't merely striving against ourselves. The feeling is that we are struggling against something--someone-else. As if there's a force-a person- that wishes us ill. In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul describes just such a person: Sin, a cosmic tyrant who constrains our moral freedom, confuses our moral judgment, and condemns us to slavery and to death. Commentators have long argued about whether Paul literally means to say Sin is a person or is simply indulging in literary personification, but regardless of Paul's intentions, for modern readers it would seem clear enough: there is no such thing as a cosmic tyrant. Surely it is more reasonable to suppose "Sin" is merely a colorful way of describing individual misdeeds or, at most, a way of evoking the intractability of our social ills. In The Emergence of Sin, Matthew Croasmun suggests we take another look. The vision of Sin he offers is at once scientific and theological, social and individual, corporeal and mythological. He argues both that the cosmic power Sin is nothing more than an emergent feature of a vast human network of transgression and that this power is nevertheless real, personal, and one whom we had better be ready to resist. Ultimately, what is on offer here is an account of the world re-mythologized at the hands of chemists, evolutionary biologists, sociologists, and entomologists. In this world, Paul's text is not a relic of a forgotten mythical past, but a field manual for modern living.
The Biology Of Nitric Oxide
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Author : S. Moncada
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Release Date : 1996
The Biology Of Nitric Oxide written by S. Moncada and has been published by Ashgate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biochemistry categories.
These are the proceedings of 4th International Meeting on the Biology of Oxides, 1995. The book provides an overview of the current status of the field with contributions from over 450 specialists including the areas of enzymology, molecular cloning, and the biochemical actions of NO.
Original Sin And The Evolution Of Sexual Difference
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Author : Megan Loumagne Ulishney
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-12
Original Sin And The Evolution Of Sexual Difference written by Megan Loumagne Ulishney and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12 with categories.
Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference develops an interdisciplinary conversation between evolutionary biology, feminist philosophy, and theology in order to illuminate the entanglement of Christian thinking about original sin with theologies of sexual difference. It then assesses the opportunities for rethinking original sin and its implications for theologies of sexual difference in light of developments in evolutionary biology and feminist theology and philosophy. Despite some resistances in the present age to conceptions of both original sin and meaningful sexual differences, this study argues that both can provide essential insights that help to make sense of some of the features of human life in the twenty-first century, especially the stubborn persistence of inequality, poverty, environmental degradation, and the pernicious patterns of sexual violence and abuse that have been uncovered by the #MeToo movement. To this end, Megan Loumagne Ulishney marshals resources from a variety of places-Augustine of Hippo, feminist theology, the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, John Paul II, and a new group of feminist philosophers known as the New Feminist Materialists-to develop an analysis of original sin and sexual difference that is grounded in both scientific and theological insights about creaturely life. The project cultivates a sense of wonder at the diversity and unpredictability of human biology, a value for the role of creativity in the human participation that partially shapes our ongoing evolution, and humility about the extent to which we can predict and control the future of the evolution of our species. It illuminates the interdependencies that define creaturely life, the persistent entanglement of nature and culture, the centrality of desire to human identity and behaviour, and the role played by biology in the transmission of sin. It develops a vision of material life as evolving, generative, and imbued with activity, but also as simultaneously infected with sin and saturated with the divine.
The Biology Of Seaweeds
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Author : Christopher S. Lobban
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1981-01-01
The Biology Of Seaweeds written by Christopher S. Lobban and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with Science categories.
The Evolution Of Sin
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Author : Hans Madueme
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Evolution Of Sin written by Hans Madueme and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Evolution (Biology) categories.
Redeeming Sin
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Author : Ernst M. Conradie
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-10-11
Redeeming Sin written by Ernst M. Conradie and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-11 with Religion categories.
Can Christian sin-talk be retrieved within the public sphere? In this contribution to ecotheology, Ernst M. Conradie argues that, amid ecological destruction, discourse on sin can contribute to a multidisciplinary depth diagnosis of what has gone wrong in the world. He confronts some major obstacles related to the plausibility of sin-talk in conversation with evolutionary biology, the cognitive sciences, and animal ethology. He defends an Augustinian insistence that social evil, rather than natural evil, is our primary predicament. If the root cause of social evil is sin, then a Christian confession of sin may yet yield good news for the whole earth.