Book contents
- Jesus and the Genome
- Jesus and the Genome
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 What Has Christology to Do with Biology?
- Chapter 2 The Encounter between Christianity and Science
- Chapter 3 The Doctrine of the Incarnation
- Chapter 4 Evolutionary Biology and Christian Responses
- Chapter 5 Christology and Genomics
- Chapter 6 The Grand Miracle and Empirical Science
- Chapter 7 Reflections on Jesus and Evolutionary Theory
- Chapter 8 Evolutionary Christology in the Worldview Arena
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 7 - Reflections on Jesus and Evolutionary Theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2024
- Jesus and the Genome
- Jesus and the Genome
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 What Has Christology to Do with Biology?
- Chapter 2 The Encounter between Christianity and Science
- Chapter 3 The Doctrine of the Incarnation
- Chapter 4 Evolutionary Biology and Christian Responses
- Chapter 5 Christology and Genomics
- Chapter 6 The Grand Miracle and Empirical Science
- Chapter 7 Reflections on Jesus and Evolutionary Theory
- Chapter 8 Evolutionary Christology in the Worldview Arena
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Our realist commitment to both Christology and biology entails that the Theandric One, the God–Human, Jesus Christ, came into an evolutionary world. This entailment drives us to seek a way that preserves both essential theological doctrines and foundational facts of evolutionary biology. After showing in Chapters 5 and 6 how this might be done regarding the Incarnational doctrines of Jesus’s life and resurrection, we must now broaden our inquiry to analyze several important features of this evolutionary world that provide larger context for understanding the intersection of the Incarnation with evolutionary theory.
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- Jesus and the GenomeThe Intersection of Christology and Biology, pp. 165 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024