Are Hominins Special? Human Origins as the Image and Likeness of God
The recent discovery of a number of non-human hominin species who, as language, technology, and culture-bearing beings, lived both before and as contemporaries with early anatomically modern humans, has raised a number of problems with the notion of humans as evolutionarily unique. These discoveries...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Theology and science
Year: 2020, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 537-551 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science NBC Doctrine of God NBD Doctrine of Creation NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
HUMAN origins
B Imago Dei B biblical election B Adam and Eve B unity of humanity B Hominin lineage B Evolution |
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| Summary: | The recent discovery of a number of non-human hominin species who, as language, technology, and culture-bearing beings, lived both before and as contemporaries with early anatomically modern humans, has raised a number of problems with the notion of humans as evolutionarily unique. These discoveries have also raised issues regarding the concept of human uniqueness that has long played a central role within key interpretations of the hominin fossil record and has also provided the key lens through which many theologians have interpreted the meaning of humans as the “image and likeness of God” (imago Dei). I suggest that the best way to understand the imago Dei in light of human origins and hominin diversity is the early Jewish and early Christian concept of historical or biblical election. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2020.1825188 |