Doing without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin - Theology and the Sciences - Patricia Williams - Books - Augsburg Fortress Publishers - 9780800632854 - September 5, 2000
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Doing without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin - Theology and the Sciences 1st edition

Patricia Williams

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Doing without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin - Theology and the Sciences 1st edition

In this provocative new addition to the Theology and the Sciences series, Patricia Williams assays the original sin doctrine with a scientific lens and, based on sociobiology, offers an alternative Christian account of human nature's foibles and future.

Focusing on the Genesis 2 and 3 account, Williams shows how its "historical" interpretation in early Christianity not only misread the text but derived an idea of being human profoundly at odds with experience and contemporary science. After gauging Christianity's several competing notions of human nature -- Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox -- against contemporary biology, Williams turns to sociobiological accounts of the evolution of human dispositions toward reciprocity and limited cooperation as a source of human good and evil. From this vantage point she offers new interpretations of evil, sin, and the Christian doctrine of atonement.

Williams's work, frank in its assessment of traditional misunderstandings, challenges theologians and all Christians to reassess the roots and branches of this linchpin doctrine.


224 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 5, 2000
Original release date 2001
ISBN13 9780800632854
Publishers Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Pages 248
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 16 mm   ·   376 g
Language English  
Translator Williams, Patricia A., RN, MSN, CCRN

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