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The Material Image
Reconciling Modern Science and Christian Faith
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2020
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In The Material Image, Donald H. Wacome sets out to reconcile the Christian faith and contemporary science by embracing, rather than evading, its naturalistic implications. The sciences are our best way to know ourselves and the world we inhabit, Wacome argues, but this does not make belief in miracles unreasonable. The sciences reveal that we are fully material beings, the product of unguided natural selection. God created human persons for the vocation of sharing in the everlasting Triune life and work, but this creation does not involve design. The mind is the embodied, socially situated brain. There is no immaterial soul; we are the material image of our transcendent Creator. This materialist conception does not preclude the resurrection of the body. The freedom that matters for the human creature is compatible with our being governed by the laws of nature. Morality and religion are natural, merely human, legacies of our evolutionary history, which God employs in pursuit of fellowship with us. Christians can faithfully and enthusiastically welcome the image of human beings given in contemporary science.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0390-2
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978-1-9787-0391-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
331
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: Christianity, Naturalism, and Science No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter Two: Knowledge No access Pages 23 - 48
Chapter Three: Miracles No access Pages 49 - 82
Chapter Four: Origins No access Pages 83 - 122
Chapter Five: Mind No access Pages 123 - 162
Chapter Six: Freedom No access Pages 163 - 192
Chapter Seven: Morality No access Pages 193 - 238
Chapter Eight: Religion No access Pages 239 - 276
Chapter Nine: Resurrection No access Pages 277 - 310
