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  • ISBN: 0334018951
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  • Author: Gerd Theissen
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  • Publisher: SCM Press (October 1, 2012)
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Biblical Faith has been added to your Cart. Theissen proceeds from the notion the culture itself is an evolution of evolution. This book offers an interpretation of (Christian) religion from an evolutionary perspective

Biblical Faith has been added to your Cart. It is still dominated by the Darwinian key concepts of daptation, but Theissen is convinced that these concepts gain increasing independence from their biological roots as human cultures evolve. This book offers an interpretation of (Christian) religion from an evolutionary perspective. As such, it probably needs reworking on the science part: the view on cultural evolution it offers is oblivious to current developments (anything later than the 1980s).

A Critical Faith and Biblical Faith: an Evolutionary Approach are particularly important in this respect. Gerd Theissen, Dagmar Winter, The Quest for the Plausible Jesus: The Question of Criteria (1997), Westminster John Knox Press, 2002, ISBN 0-664-22537-3

A Critical Faith and Biblical Faith: an Evolutionary Approach are particularly important in this respect. But his recent publications also include The Religion of the Earliest Churches, Gospel Writing and Church Politics: a Socio-rhetorical Approach, and The Shadow of the Galilean. Gerd Theissen, Dagmar Winter, The Quest for the Plausible Jesus: The Question of Criteria (1997), Westminster John Knox Press, 2002, ISBN 0-664-22537-3. Signs of Life (1998), SCM Press, 1998

Xiii, 194 pages ; 22 cm. Translation of: Biblischer Glaube in evolutionarer Sicht. Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and index. Pt. 1. Evolution and faith: an outline of the theory of evolution.

Xiii, 194 pages ; 22 cm. The problem: three contradictions between scientific thought and faith - Biological and cultural evolution: analogies and differences - Knowledge and faith as complementary expressions of life: relativizing the contradictions - pt. 2. Faith in the one and only God: biblical monotheism in an evolutionary perspective.

Biblical Faith: An Evolutionary Approach - Libro electrónico escrito por Gerd Theissen. In the tradition of Karl Rahner and Teilhard de Chardin, this book from renowned New Testament scholar Gerd Theissen daringly probes the innermost sanctuaries of the biblical tradition through the lens of evolutionary theory. Without associating evolution with a na?ve optimism about progress, Theissen shows how a thorough examination of the "cultural evolution" of the Christian faith can yield glimmers of a possible goal of history: "complete adaptation to the reality of Go. Leer más. Contraer.

Theissen has written a most stimulating book which allows us to see old things in a new, unexpected, and different .

Theissen has written a most stimulating book which allows us to see old things in a new, unexpected, and different light. Hans Schwarz, University of Regensburg. Anyone working in process theology or in science and religion needs this book as a thorough and challenging alternative to other evolutionary interpretations. This book is so fresh and so fundamentally sound in essaying a new approach both to biblical studies and to theology that it deserves as wide a reading and as full a discussion as possible. Charley D. Hardwick, The Christian Century.

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Publication: Москва : Библейско-Богословский институт св. апостола Андрея (ББИ), 2009Description: 243 с. SBN: 5-89647-199-8. Series: Богословие и наукаBibliography: Библиография. Subject: Эволюция - Религиозный аспект - Христианство, Evolution - Religious aspects

Biblical Faith: An Evolutionary Approach.

Biblical Faith: An Evolutionary Approach. University of Dayton.

Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach. Biblical Faith: An Evolutionary Perspective. Philadelphia: Fortress. Gerd Theissen's scholarship on Jesus' moral perspectives is given special attention. Van Huyssteen Alone in the World: Human Uniqueness in Science and The-ology. Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel.

This book amply confirms that Gerd Theissen is the most exciting of contemporary German theologians, and could well prove to be for the 1980s what Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man was for the 1960s. All too often, Professor Theissen argues, scientific criticisms of Christianity, whether literary, social or psychological, stop short before reaching the heart of their investigations, suggesting that the central theological statements of the Christian faith can be made independently of their findings. But what happens if we press the questioning as far as it will go, refusing to leave any privileged ground for religion? As a framework for his critique Professor Theissen uses the theory of evolution, though well aware of its negative connotations. He is not so naive as to associate evolution with naive optimism about progress; progress has brought humanity to the point where it may well destroy the world. Nor does he ignore the difference between biological evolution and human history; the distinction between biological evolution and cultural evolution is crucial to his argument. The result of the investigation surprised even the author. When we refuse to stop short at the innermost sanctuaries of the tradition with modern scientific questioning, the tradition shows up in quite a new, yet still plausible light. And our understanding becomes all the richer. Not only those interested in the relationship between religion and science, but anyone with the slightest curiosity about religious questions, will be fascinated by this book.
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Gadar
Best known for his bestselling "In the Shadow of the Galilean," Theissen is a German theologian and biblical scholar who taught for many years at the University of Heidelberg. Though this present book is now almost 35 years old, it is still worth reading. Theissen proceeds from the notion the culture itself is an evolution of evolution. It is still dominated by the Darwinian key concepts of mutation--selection--adaptation, but Theissen is convinced that these concepts gain increasing independence from their biological roots as human cultures evolve. (Thus he wants to distinguish himself from E. O. Wilson and other adherents of sociobiology.) Reviewing the cultural history of religion, he considers monotheism and subsequently the life and message of Jesus as cultural mutations of the first importance. These mutations are moving (or are trying to move) away from biological selection (Spencer's principle of "the survival of the fittest") towards an ethic of solidarity. The message and life of Jesus have set an anti-selectionist religious program: Love your neighbor, love your enemy, do not exploit but suffer and even die for others. This love goes beyond the biologically known altruism for one's own gene pool. Ultimately this anti-selectionist program of unconditional love will lead to higher forms of adaptation to reality than any biological selection ("the selfish gene" of Richard Dawkins) could hope to achieve. Religion, therefore, has a crucial role to play in the further cultural evolution of man.--Least persuasive in Theissen's tour de force are, in my opinion, his efforts to distinguish his Christian evolutionism from the teleology of somebody like Theilhard de Chardin. Theissen seems to want to have it both ways: Though he boldly states that "In all probability, evolution has no pre-existing goal," he, on the same page, speculates that "we cannot rule out the possibility that the world-process has an intrinsic goal" (p. 167). His distinction between an "extrinsic goal" of the process (teleology), which he rejects, and an "intrinsic coal," which he allows, seems no more than word play. As long as he admits an overall direction for evolution (whether biological or cultural), which he does, it does not really matter whether this direction proceeds in a direct line or by trial and error. -- In any case, this is a thoughtful, for a Christian theologian daring book that could be an eye-opener for many Christians. Whether it will make sense to non-Christians, agnostics or atheists, is another matter.
Mr.Champions
This book offers an interpretation of (Christian) religion from an evolutionary perspective. As such, it probably needs reworking on the science part: the view on cultural evolution it offers is oblivious to current developments (anything later than the 1980s). To give you some idea what this entails: it rejects the possibility that the process of cultural evolution is in continuity with biological evolution (a position the author ascribes to sociobiology).
But I think the book is still worth to be read. The general claims the author makes about the consequences of cultural evolution for humanity - enabling us to surpass genetic evolution, giving us a capacity for free will, making us responsible for our global ecosystem - are not that remote from what e.g. Dawkins (The Selfish Gene), or Daniel Dennett (Darwin's Dangerous Idea) have argued. One would have to see whether and how this fits today's theories of how culture evolves, precisely the reason why I give this book 4 stars.
As you can read in the title of this short review, I think Theissen gives you good material to work with. He challenges the assumption - seemingly dominant these days - that evolution rules out religion, precisely by attempting to interpret religion as a result of evolution. He does this not so much by taking resource to process philosophy or emergence theory or whatever, as by using his biblical scholarship.
His work may be a challenge to some philosophical interpretations of science, but it is foremost a challenge for theologies that reject dialogue with science and/or widen the gap between transcendence and immanence too far. When one wonders how we could see humanity as 'Imago Dei', what 'the workings of the Spirit' could mean, or why Jesus Christ could be called 'Son of God' against the background of evolutionary thought, one can receive creative impulses from this book. Use them wisely...

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