Selfish Genes And Christian Ethics

Author : Neil Messer
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334029961
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selfish Genes and Christian Ethics written by Neil Messer and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolutionary origins of human beings, and in particular the origins of human morality, have always attracted debate and speculation, not just in the academic community but in popular science and the wider general population as well. The arguments and explanations put forward over the years seem to thoroughly catch the popular imagination, but there is the danger that these explanations tend to step outside the bounds of scientific theory and become powerful popular myths instead. In Neil Messer's "Selfish Genes and Christian Ethics", the author is challenging this tendency. Instead, he provides a Christian theological anthropology, which, among other things, aims to give Christians and the churches the confidence to engage with assumptions that evolutionary theory and religious beliefs are untenable. This is a valuable resource for anyone engaged in the study of theology, providing the reader with the ability to consider both the theoretical and the practical questions raised by evolutionary discussions of ethics and morality.

Author : Stephen R. L. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521567688
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biology and Christian Ethics written by Stephen R. L. Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating and wide-ranging book mounts a profound enquiry into some of the most pressing questions of our age, by examining the relationship between biological science and Christianity. The history of biological discovery is explored from the point of view of a leading philosopher and ethicist. What effect should modern biological theory and practice have on Christian understanding of ethics? How much of that theory and practice should Christians endorse? Can Christians, for example, agree that biological changes are not governed by transcendent values, or that there are no clear or essential boundaries between species? To what extent can 'Nature' set our standards? Professor Clark takes a reasoned look at biological theory since Darwin and argues that an orthodox Christian philosophy is better able to accommodate the truth of such theory than is the sort of progressive, meliorist interpretation of Christian doctrine which is usually offered as the properly 'modern' option.

Author : Colin Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139430211
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Altruism and Christian Ethics written by Colin Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social levelling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. The Christian affirmation is that God is characterised by self-giving love (agape), then expected of Christians. Lacking this theological background, the focus on self-interest in sociobiology and economics, and on human realism in the political focus of John Rawls or the feminist sociability of Carol Gilligan, finds altruism naive or a dangerous distraction from real possibilities of mutual support. This book argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.

Author : Marie Vejrup Nielsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042922631
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sin and Selfish Genes written by Marie Vejrup Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alexander Massmann
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334059550
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modifying Our Genes written by Alexander Massmann and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If our bodies could do more things, would our lives be better? Genome editing is a rapidly developing technology that can modify human genes. It can cure heritable diseases, but we could even make certain genetic “improvements” to healthy people. Should we change human embryos genetically to achieve such goals? Bringing together a leading molecular biologist and a Christian ethicist this book responds to the need for solid information and helpful orientation for a pressing moral issue. They explain relevant technical issues without the jargon, clarify the most important philosophical and religious arguments and bring empirical insights to the question of what helps us lead meaningful lives.

Author : Daryl P. Domning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351913182
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Selfishness written by Daryl P. Domning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends a startling idea: that the age-old theological and philosophical problems of original sin and evil, long thought intractable, have already been solved. The solution has come from the very scientific discovery that many consider the most mortal threat to traditional religion: evolution. Daryl P. Domning explains in straightforward terms the workings of modern evolutionary theory, Darwinian natural selection, and how this has brought forth life and the human mind. He counters objections to Darwinism that are raised by some believers and emphasizes that the evolutionary process necessarily enforces selfish behavior on all living things. This account of both physical and moral evil is arguably more consistent with traditional Christian teachings than are the explanations given by most contemporary "evolutionary" theologians themselves. The prominent theologian, Monika K. Hellwig, dialogues with Daryl Domning throughout the book to present a balanced reappraisal of the doctrine of original sin from both a scientist's and theologian's perspective.

Author : Neil Messer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567671402
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theological Neuroethics written by Neil Messer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Messer brings together a range of theoretical and practical questions raised by current research on the human brain: questions about both the 'ethics of neuroscience' and the 'neuroscience of ethics'. While some of these are familiar to theologians, others have been more or less ignored hitherto, and the field of neuroethics as a whole has received little theological attention. Drawing on both theological ethics and the science-and-theology field, Messer discusses cognitive-scientific and neuroscientific studies of religion, arguing that they do not give grounds to dismiss theological perspectives on the human self. He examines a representative range of topics across the whole field of neuroethics, including consciousness, the self and the value of human life; the neuroscience of morality; determinism, freewill and moral responsibility; and the ethics of cognitive enhancement.

Author : Bruce R. Reichenbach
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592440258
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Behalf of God written by Bruce R. Reichenbach and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of a series - Studies in a Christian World View - that focuses on the relation of Christianity to the various academic disciplines - philosophy, psychology, economics, the arts, history, literature. The series addresses difficult questions that arise when we bring considerations derived from a specific religious worldview to bear on matters common to both Christians and non-Christians.

Author : Joel B. Green
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080103406X
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics written by Joel B. Green and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars from the fields of biblical studies and ethics provide a one-stop reference book on the vital relationship between Scripture and ethics.

Author : Frederick V. Simmons
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626163677
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Christian Ethics written by Frederick V. Simmons and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In" Love and Christian Ethics," nearly two dozen leading scholars analyze and assess the meaning of love from a wide range of perspectives. Chapters are organized into three areas: influential sources and exponents of Western Christian thought about the ethical significance of love, perennial theoretical questions attending that consideration, and the implications of Christian love for important social realities. These major experts in the field bring a richness of thought and experience to deliver unprecedentedly broad yet rigorous analysis of this central tenet of Christian ethics and faith. "Love and Christian Ethics" is sure to become a benchmark resource in the field.