Evolution and the Fall

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction: beyond Galileo to chalcedon: Resources for reimagining evolution, Human origins, and the fall I. Mapping the questions 1. Human origins: The scientific story ...3 2. In Adam all die?: Questions at the boundary of niche construction, community evolution, and original sin ...23 3. What Stands on the fall?: A philosophical exploration ...48 II. Biblical studies and theological implications 4. Reading Genesis 3 Attentive to human evolution: Beyond concordism and non-overlapping magisteria ...67 5. Adam, What have you done?: New testament voices on the origins of sin ...98 6. The mystery of Adam: A poetic apology for the traditional doctrine ...117 III. Beyond origins: Cultural implications 7. Being all we should have been and more: The fall and the quest for perfection ...139 8. On learning to see a fallen and flourishing creation: Alternative ways of looking at the world ...156 IV. Reimagining the conversation: Faithful ways foreward 9. The fall of the fall in early modern political theory: The politics of science ...181 10. Is science-religion conflict aleays a bad things?: Augustinian reflections on christianity and evolution ...204