Alone in the world? : human uniqueness in science and theology / J. Wentzel van Huyssteen.
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TextSeries: The Gifford lectures ; 2004Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2006.Description: xviii, 347 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0802832466 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780802832467
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- BT701.3 .V36 2006
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Knox | Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre | Main | BT701.3 .V36 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 07-160 |
"The University of Edinburgh, Spring 2004."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-336) and index.
Human uniqueness as an interdisciplinary problem? -- Interdisciplinarity in theology and science -- Tradition and communicative understanding -- Interdisciplinarity and human uniqueness -- Human uniqueness and cognitive evolution -- Human distinctiveness in paleontology -- Human uniqueness as a moral issue -- Human uniqueness and hominid evolution -- Charles Darwin on human uniqueness -- Evolutionary epistemology and human uniqueness -- Evolutionary epistemology as embodied epistemology -- Evolutionary epistemology and religion.
1. Human uniqueness as an interdisciplinary problem? -- 2. Human uniqueness and cognitive evolution -- 3. Human uniqueness and the image of God -- 4. Human uniqueness and human origins -- 5. Human uniqueness and symbolization -- 6. Human uniqueness in science and theology.
Human uniqueness as an interdisciplinary problem? -- Interdisciplinarity in theology and science -- Tradition and communicative understanding -- Interdisciplinarity and human uniqueness -- Human uniqueness and cognitive evolution -- Human distinctiveness in paleontology -- Human uniqueness as amoral issue -- Human uniqueness and hominid evolution -- Charles Darwin on human uniqueness -- Evolutionary epistemology and human uniqueness -- Evolutionary epistemology as embodied epistemology -- Evolutionary epistemology and religion.
"In Alone in the World? - first given as the 2004 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh - J. Wentzel van Huyssteen develops the interdisciplinary dialogue that he set out in The Shaping of Rationality (1999), applying this methodology to the uncharted waters between theological anthropology and paleoanthropology." "Among other things, van Huyssteen argues that scientific notions of human uniqueness help us to ground theological notions of human distinctiveness in flesh-and-blood, embodied experiences and protect us from overly complex theological abstractions regarding the "image of God." Focusing on the interdisciplinary problem of human origins and distinctiveness, van Huyssteen accesses the origins of the embodied human mind through the spectacular prehistoric cave paintings of western Europe, fifteen of which are reproduced in color in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
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