A Cultural Evolutionary Approach to Modernity: What Might It Mean for Christian Faith?

This essay introduces, for theological consideration, some recent work in the field of cultural evolutionary theory, specifically the kin-influence hypothesis. This theory holds that, following the beginnings of industrialization and economic growth, a nation's fertility rate commences a declin...

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Main Author: Patterson, Colin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- [2020]
In: Zygon
Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-72
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Cultural evolution / Family / Social contact / Christianity / Value ethics / Secularism
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CB Christian life; spirituality
Further subjects:B Cultural Evolution
B Fertility
B Modernity
B Secularization
B Family
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