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1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) |
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Issues in science and theology |
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Issues in science and theology.
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| Contents |
Varieties of personhood: mapping the issues / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- Consciousness, fatalism and science / Mary Midgley -- Multifaceted nature of human personhood: psychological and theological perspectives / Fraser Watts -- Child's brain -- on neurogenetic determinism and free will / Hugo Lagercrantz -- Imago dei: the possibility and necessity of the human person / Philip Hefner -- Is the autonomous person of European modernity a sustainable model of human personhood? / Michael Welker -- Peril and promise of supervenience for the science-theology discussion / Dennis Bielfeldt -- God's public traffic: holist versus physicalist supervenience / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- Social construction of the human spirit / John A. Teske |
| Summary |
The concept of human personhood is central to theology and philosophy. It has also become crucial in interdisciplinary fields like bio-ethics and theology and science. In this book leading European and American scholars explore the dimensions of personhood from scientific and theological perspectives. Contributors include Mary Midgely, Fraser Watts, Philip Hefner, Michael Welker, Dennis Bielfeldt and John A. Teske. This is an important collection and shows the extent to which the current dialogue between science and theology is no longer confined to discussing the relation of theology with p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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Persons -- Congresses
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Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- Congresses
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Religion and science -- Congresses
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Religion and science.
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Science -- Methodology.
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Theology -- Methodology.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Religion and Science
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Theology -- Methodology
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Science -- Philosophy
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Science -- Methodology
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Persons
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Religion and science
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Theological anthropology -- Christianity
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Naturwissenschaften.
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Person.
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Theologie.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gregersen, Niels Henrik, 1956-
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Drees, Willem B., 1954-
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Görman, Ulf, 1943-
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| ISBN |
0567258475 |
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9780567258472 |
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