The Human Person in Science and Theology

by Gregersen, Niels Henrik; Drees, Willem B.; Gorman, Ulf

• ISBN13: 9780802838933
• ISBN10: 0802838936
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

The concept of human personhood is central to theology and philosophy. It has also become crucial in interdisciplinary fields like bioethics and theology and science.

Author Biography

Niels Henrik Gregersen is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark Willem B. Drees is the Nicolette Bruining Professor of Nature and of Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands Ulf Gorman is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University, Sweden

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Varieties of Personhood: Mapping the Issues	1	(20)
Niels Henrik Gregersen
PART I TOWARDS A BIO-CULTURAL PARADIGM OF PERSONHOOD
Consciousness, Fatalism and Science	21	(20)
Mary Midgley
The Multifaceted Nature of Human Personhood: Psychological and Theological Perspectives	41	(24)
Fraser Watts
The Child's Brain-On Neurogenetic Determinism and Free Will	65	(8)
Hugo Lagercrantz
Imago Dei: The Possibility and Necessity of the Human Person	73	(22)
Philip Hefner
Is the Autonomous Person of European Modernity a Sustainable Model of Human Personhood?	95	(22)
Michael Welker
PART II SUPERVENIENCE, MIND AND CULTURE
The Peril and Promise of Supervenience for the Science-Theology Discussion	117	(36)
Dennis Bielfeldt
God's Public Traffic: Holist versus Physicalist Supervenience	153	(36)
Niels Henrik Gregersen
The Social Construction of the Human Spirit	189	(24)
John A. Teske
Index	213