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This book explores the philosophical and theological significance of evolutionary anthropology and includes diverse approaches to the relationship between evolution, culture and religion.
List of contents
1 Introduction-Martin Breul and Caroline Helmus; 2 Some Thoughts on Evolution, Culture, and Religion-Michael Tomasello; Part I The Philosophical Foundations of Evolutionary Anthropology; 3 Michael Tomasello’s Vision of Human Uniqueness and the Place of Human Religion-Wesley Wildman;4 How Transcendental Aristotelianism can integrate Tomasello’s Natural History of Morality-Christian Illies; 5 Pointing as Intending. On the Social and Cognitive Significance of Deictic Communication-Henning Tegtmeyer; Part II Theological Perspectives on Evolutionary Anthropology; 6 The Nature of Humanity and the Origins of Religion: Contributions from Michael Tomasello-Marcia Pally; 7 Tomasello and Kant. Religious Faith and the Evolution of Morality––Empirical Support for Kant’s ‘Postulates of Practical Reason’?-Martin Breul; 8 Embodied Image of God. Evolutionary Anthropology in Theological Perspective-Gregor Etzelmüller; 9 Cultural Learning, Embodiment and Relationality in Evolutionary and Theological Anthropology-Caroline Helmus; Part III Broadening the View: Further Reflections on Religion, Science, and Modernity; 10 Deficiency Guarantee? Jürgen Habermas on the Anthropological and Evolutionary Function of the Sacred Complex-Thomas M. Schmidt; 11 Between Relevance and Redundancy. Thoughts on the Profile of Theology in the Ever-Accelerating Late Modernity-Anne Weber; 12 Excess and Evolution. The Transgressive Sources of (R)Evolution-Sarah Rosenhauer
About the author
Martin Breul is Substitute Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute of Catholic Theology, the University of Dortmund, Germany.
Caroline Helmus is a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Catholic Theology, the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Summary
This book explores the philosophical and theological significance of evolutionary anthropology and includes diverse approaches to the relationship between evolution, culture and religion.
