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Saving the Neanderthals

Sin, Salvation, and Hard Evolution
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 2019

Summary

What happens when the wrench of evolution is dropped into the hopper of Christian theology? Written by a philosopher, Saving the Neanderthals takes evolution as its foil and shows what might have to change in Christian theology in order to make theology compatible with evolution. If the Christian faith is shown consistent with what Mark S. McLeod-Harrison calls “hard evolution,” then the softer versions will also be compatible. Indeed, that is exactly what the book argues, specifically for the Christian doctrines of sin and salvation. These doctrines typically rely on some fairly strong realist version of essentialism, which hard evolution denies; but McLeod-Harrison proposes an approach to sin and salvation that is compatible with the anti-essentialist claims of hard evolution.

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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0654-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0655-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
155
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Acknowledgments No access
    3. Preface No access
  1. 1 Did Jesus Die for Neanderthals? No access Pages 1 - 12
  2. 2 What is “Hard” Evolution? No access Pages 13 - 24
  3. 3 Are Humans Special? No access Pages 25 - 30
  4. 4 Is There a Human Species? No access Pages 31 - 44
  5. 5 Theologizing Evolution’s Challenges No access Pages 45 - 52
  6. 6 The Ubiquity of Sin and the Universality of Saintly Love No access Pages 53 - 68
  7. 7 Essences, Sin, and Our Neanderthal Sisters and Brothers No access Pages 69 - 82
  8. 8 Uniqueness and the Image of God No access Pages 83 - 92
  9. 9 Love, Altruism, and the Inevitability of Sin No access Pages 93 - 108
  10. 10 The Redemptive Work of the Biological Person, Jesus No access Pages 109 - 122
  11. 11 Saving the Neanderthals No access Pages 123 - 128
  12. Appendix No access Pages 129 - 144
  13. Bibliography No access Pages 145 - 148
  14. Credits No access Pages 149 - 150
  15. Index No access Pages 151 - 154
  16. About the Author No access Pages 155 - 155

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