Christ, Creation, and the Fall - Discerning Human Purpose From an Evolving Nature

Inspired by Philip Hefner’s The Human Factor (1993), Simon R. Watson engages Darwin’s The Descent of Man (1871), William Paley’s Natural Theology (1802), and the twenty-first century Wisdom Christologies of Denis Edwards and Elizabeth Johnson to argue for a liberative theology of nature grounded in a compassionate Christ and an existential fall.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 William Paley and Douglas John Hall: The Watchmaker God and the Crucified Christ
Chapter 2 Charles Darwin, Asa Gray, and Aubrey Moore: A Natural History of the Golden Rule
Chapter 3 Philip Hefner's Risky Teleology: Natural Selection as the Sacrificial Means of a Free Creation
Chapter 4 Denis Edwards and Elizabeth Johnson: A Liberative Sophia
Conclusion: Discerning Christ in Creation

About the author

Simon R. Watson, MA, PhD, has taught Christian ethics at Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto and worked as a research associate in the department of biology at York University.

Product details

• Authors: Simon R. Watson
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2021
• EAN: 9781978710924
• ISBN: 978-1-978710-92-4
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Theology, History of Science, Religion and science, Religion & science