RT Article
T1 Biology and the Theology of the Human: with Paul L. Allen, “An Augustinian Philosopher between Dualism and Materialism: Ernan McMullin on Human Emergence” and Ernan McMullin, “Biology and the Theology of the Human”
JF Zygon
VO 48
IS 2
SP 305
OP 328
A1 McMullin, Ernan
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1827964014
AB We will consider two Christian responses to the enormous advances in recent years in the connected sciences of genetics, evolutionary biology, and biochemistry, a dualist one by Pope John Paul II and an “emergentist” one by Arthur Peacocke. These two could hardly be more different. It would be impossible within the scope of a brief comment to do justice to these differences. What I hope to do instead is more modest: to draw attention to troublesome ambiguities in some of the key concepts on which discussions of human uniqueness depend, to recall very briefly some of the difficulties philosophers have encountered in their attempts to define the relation of the human powers of mind to the material capacities of body, and finally to ask what the theological significance of all this is.
K1 Soul
K1 Reduction
K1 Arthur Peacocke
K1 Matter
K1 John Paul II
K1 Human Nature
K1 Evolution
K1 Emergence
K1 Dualism
DO 10.1111/zygo.12001