Human Evolution and Christian Ethics

by Stephen J. Pope

• ISBN13: 9780521863407
• ISBN10: 0521863406
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Christian ethics has increasingly assumed a central place within academic theology. At the same time the growing power and ambiguity of modern science and the rising dissatisfaction within the social sciences about claims in value-neutrality have prompted renewed interest in ethics within the secular academic world. There is, therefore, a need for studies in Christian ethics which, as well as being concerned with the relevance of Christian ethics to the present-day secular debate, are well informed about parallel discussions in recent philosophy, science or social science. New Studies in Christian Ethics aims to provide books that do this at the highest intellectual level and demonstrate that Christian ethics can make a distinctive contribution to this debate - either in moral substance or in terms of underlying moral justifications.

Table of Contents

General editor's preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Evolution and religion	p. 8
The indifference of Christian ethics to human evolution	p. 32
Varieties of reductionism	p. 56
Faith, creation, and evolution	p. 76
Chance and purpose in evolution	p. 111
Human nature and human flourishing	p. 129
Freedom and responsibility	p. 158
Human dignity and common descent	p. 188
Christian love and evolutionary altruism	p. 214
The natural roots of morality	p. 250
Natural law in an evolutionary context	p. 268
Sex, marriage, and family	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 320
Index of scriptural citations	p. 346
Index of names and subjects	p. 348
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