Sin and selfish genes
Subtitle: Christian and biological narratives
By: by Marie Vejrup Nielsen
Series: Studies in philosophical theology -- 44
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789042922631
Subjects: Religion and science; Evolution (Biology); Sin; Christianity
Other titles: Christian and biological narratives
Notes: A revision of the authors thesis (doctoral--Faculty of Theology, Aarhus University, 2007) presented under title: Being human : crisis and solution in grand narratives of humanity : the doctrine of sin in dialogue with evolutionary biology.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-277) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. A narrative approach to interdisciplinarity. Narrative vs. paradigmatic level : from between to within disciplines; title: Agency, temporality, and the element of change; title: Narrative tone in narratives of human being; title: Ch. 2. Christian theology and the doctrine of sin.  Augustine : sin and humanity; title: Martin Luther : sin and humanity; title: Perspectives on Augustine and Martin Luther; title: Paul Tillich : a doctrine of sin in dialogue with psychology; title: Wolfhart Pannenberg : a doctrine of sin in dialogue with psychology and biology; title: Perspectives on Christian theology; title: Ch. 3. Evolutionary biology. E.O. Wilson : sociobiology and a narrative challenge to religion; title: Richard Dawkins : from selfish genes to a pilgrimage to our origin; title: Perspectives on E.O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins; title: Other scientific perspectives : Lynn Margulis and Brian Goodwin; title: Perspectives on grand narratives of evolutionary biology; title: Ch. 4. Perspectives on a Christian doctrine of sin in dialogue with evolutionary biology.