What is included with this book?
Preface | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Mapping the Territory | p. 19 |
Evolution and Ethics | p. 21 |
'Evolution and Ethics' in context | p. 22 |
The argument of 'Evolution and Ethics' | p. 27 |
The issues raised by 'Evolution and Ethics' | p. 32 |
Explanation | p. 32 |
Justification | p. 34 |
Content | p. 35 |
Moral capability and its limits | p. 36 |
Theodicy | p. 38 |
Redesigning ourselves and the world | p. 40 |
Redrawing the Map | p. 42 |
Evolutionary Ethics and the Command of God the Creator | p. 63 |
The 'Evolution of Ethics' and the Doctrine of Creation | p. 65 |
Introduction | p. 65 |
The 'evolution of ethics' | p. 65 |
Creation and evolution | p. 74 |
Human creatures | p. 79 |
Human being as moral being | p. 83 |
The 'Ethics of Evolution' and the Call of God | p. 97 |
The 'ethics of evolution' | p. 97 |
Spencer, Huxley and Moore | p. 97 |
Evolutionary ethics in recent debate | p. 99 |
'Is' and 'ought' revisited | p. 104 |
Altruism and the love of neighbour | p. 109 |
Freedom, Sin and Salvation | p. 131 |
Evolution, Freedom and Moral Failure | p. 133 |
A 'tenacious and powerful enemy'? | p. 133 |
A morally problematic inheritance? | p. 133 |
Male violence | p. 133 |
Maternal care and neglect of high-risk infants | p. 136 |
Debunking morality | p. 138 |
But are we 'good natured' after all? | p. 139 |
Evaluation | p. 140 |
Determinism, freedom and responsibility | p. 145 |
Determinisms: genetic, biological, environmental, social | p. 145 |
Is biology destiny? | p. 147 |
Is determinism compatible with freedom? | p. 151 |
Does 'ought' imply 'can'? | p. 156 |
Responding to moral failure | p. 158 |
Salvation and Sin (1): Holy Love and Original Sin | p. 163 |
Holy love and the 'cruciality of the cross' | p. 166 |
Pride, sloth and falsehood | p. 169 |
Humility and pride | p. 169 |
Exaltation and sloth | p. 174 |
The victor and the true witness | p. 178 |
Original sin | p. 184 |
Salvation and Sin (2): Theodicy and Hope | p. 196 |
The justification of God | p. 196 |
Transformed relationships and the redemption of our bodies | p. 203 |
Ultimate hope and penultimate responsibility | p. 207 |
The ultimate and the penultimate | p. 207 |
'Already' and 'Not yet' | p. 209 |
A cosmic and universal hope | p. 211 |
Working Out Our Own Salvation? | p. 216 |
Medicine, technology and the Baconian project | p. 216 |
Human genetic modification | p. 218 |
Human cloning and embryonic stem cell technology | p. 220 |
Genetically modified crops | p. 222 |
Technological projects and the Christian narrative | p. 226 |
Diagnostic questions | p. 229 |
Is the project good news to the poor? | p. 229 |
Is the project an attempt to be 'like God', or does it conform to the image of God? | p. 231 |
What attitude does the project embody towards the material world (including our own bodies)? | p. 233 |
What attitude does the project embody towards past failures? | p. 234 |
Assessing the projects | p. 235 |
Genetically modified crops | p. 235 |
Health | p. 237 |
Human cloning and stem cell technology | p. 238 |
Human genetic manipulation | p. 242 |
Conclusion | p. 246 |
Incorporating whatever is well-founded in the accounts on which reductionists draw | p. 246 |
Handling issues evidence with which reductionist views have difficulty | p. 247 |
Clarifying, challenging and reshaping moral concepts and experience | p. 248 |
Bibliography | p. 251 |
Index of Names and Subjects | p. 267 |
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