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EMERGING IN THE IMAGE OF GOD TO KNOW GOOD AND EVIL
Author(s) -
Roberts Jason P.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01184.x
Subject(s) - constructive , good and evil , image of god , christian theology , philosophy , epistemology , natural (archaeology) , anthropology , sociology , theology , history , archaeology , process (computing) , computer science , operating system
. Found in the Primeval History in Genesis, the biblical concepts of the “image of God” and the “knowledge of good and evil” remain integral to Christian anthropology, especially with regard to the theologoumena of “fall” and “original sin.” All of these symbols are remained important and appropriate descriptors of the human condition, provided that contemporary academic theological anthropology engages in constructive dialogue with the natural and social sciences. Using Paul Ricoeur's notion of “second naïveté experience,” I illustrate the hermeneutical significance of contemporary bio‐cultural or socio‐biological evolutionary theory for reformulating these concepts of Christian anthropology today.