Alone in the World?
Description
In Alone in the World? — first given as the 2004 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh — J. Wentzel van Huyssteen develops the interdisciplinary dialogue that he set out in The Shaping of Rationality (1999), applying this methodology to the uncharted waters between theological anthropology and paleoanthropology. Among other things, van Huyssteen argues that scientific notions of human uniqueness help us to ground theological notions of human distinctiveness in flesh-and-blood, embodied experiences and protect us from overly complex theological abstractions regarding th...
ISBN(s)
0802832466, 9780802832467
