Human Origins and the Image of God Essays in Honor of J.Wentzel Van Huyssteen

includes index and biblioraphy

PART 1: NATURAL SCIENTISTS 1. The Acquisition of Human Uniqueness How We Got from There to Here, and How We Did It So Fast IAN TATTERSALL 2. Religion as a Technology of Entanglement Dealing with the Beyond of Entanglements IAN HODDER 3. Imago Dei and Animal Domestication Cognitive-Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Uniqueness and the Imago Dei JUSTIN L. BARRETT AND TYLER S. GREENWAY 4. The Emergence of Religion What Evolution, the Human Niche, and Imagination Can Tell Us AGUSTIN FUENTES The Religious Sense Human Uniqueness, Human Evolution, and the Origins of Symbolism and Culture RICHARD POTTS PART 2: PHILOSOPHERS AND HISTORIANS 6. Persons and Humans The Dignity and Distinctiveness of the Human Person KEITH WARD 7. Axiological Sensitivity Its Origins, Dynamic Structures, and Significance for Theological Anthropology WESLEY J. WILDMAN 8. Human Evolution Some Tough Questions for the Christian MICHAEL RUSE 9. Science, Technology, and Aesthetics The Manifestation of Adaptive Cognitive Fluidity in Humans JOHN HEDLEY BROOKE PART 3: THEOLOGIANS 10. Moral Origins and Evolutionary Ethics 201 Navigating the Maze in Conversation with Wentzel van Huyssteen CELIA DEANE-DRUMMOND 11. What Makes Theology Theology? 225 Conviction, Communicability, and Comprehensibility MICHAEL WELKER 12. Are We Alone? And Does It Matter? 236 The Narrative of Human Particularity DAVID FERGUSSON 13. Postfoundationalism and the Ethic of Responsibility 250 Duet or Duel? D. ETIENNE DE VILLIERS 14. Living with Strangers? 273 On Constructing Ethical Discourses DIRK J. SMIT