Evers, Dirk
Issues in Science and Theology: Are We Special?
Part I. Reflections on Cosmology
1. Being Human in a Cosmic Context
David Wilkinson
2. Is Life Unique? Perspectives from Astrobiology and Synthetic Xenobiology
Elisabeth Loos
3. Are We Special? Humanity and Extraterrestrial Life
Alfred Kracher
4. The Cosmic Christ’s End: The Cosmological Meaning of Christ in an Interreligious Perspective, with a Focus on Jewish-Christian Eschatology
Andreas Losch
Part II. Reflections on Biology and Evolution
5. Darwinian Evolution of the Human Body and Culture
Jerzy Dzik
6. What Are Human Beings (That You Are Mindful of Them)? Notes from Neo-Darwinsim and Neo-Aristotelianism
Jonathan Jong
7. Is
Rubén Herce
8. Does Religious Behavior Render Humans Special?
Lluis Oviedo, Jay R. Feierman
9. Do Only Humans Sin? In Conversation with Frans de Waal
Ernst M. Conradie
Part III. Reflections on Anthropology, Technology and Culture
10. Theology Looking at Culture through the Lenses of Science
Ivan Colagè
11. Strong Artificial Intelligence and
Sara Lumbreras
12. Human Uniqueness and Technology: Are We Co-creators with God?
Victoria Lorrimar
13. Boundless Riches: Big Data, the Bible and Human Distinctiveness
Michael Fuller
14. Human Uniqueness or Anthropocentrism? Semantic, Anthropological and Theological Clarifications in Dialogue with Damasio’s Neuroscience
Luis O. Jiménez-Rodríguez
15. Aren’t We Animals? Deconstructing or Decolonizing the Human – Animal Divide
Angela Roothaan
Part IV. Philosophical and Theological Reflections
16. How May We Justify the History of the Universe?
Michael Heller
17. Human Uniqueness and the Normative Conception of the Rational
James Henry Collin
18. Special? Oh, Please! And Yet …
Roland Karo
19. Uniqueness and the Presence of the Image: Towards a Pneumatological Foundation for Human Uniqueness and the Image of God
Joanna Leidenhag
20. ‘What Is Man That You Are Mindful of Him?’ (Ps 8:4) How Theology Can Help to Answer the Question: What Is It to Be a Human Being?
Johanna Rahner
21. Pope Francis’ Encyclical
Jacek Poznański
22. Are Humans Special? Examining John Haught’s Idea of ‘Information’ and the Daoist Idea of
Jaeho Jang
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Anthropology, Philosophy of Mind
- Editor
- Evers, Dirk
- Fuller, Michael
- Runehov, Anne
- Sæther, Knut-Willy
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Issues in Science and Religion: Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology
- Page amount
- 15 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319621241
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-62123-4