Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution(English, Hardcover, Houck Daniel W.)

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Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution(English, Hardcover, Houck Daniel W.) is written by Houck Daniel W. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108493696 (ISBN 10) and 9781108493697 (ISBN 13).

Is original sin compatible with evolution? Many today believe the answer is 'No'. Engaging Aquinas's revolutionary account of the doctrine, Daniel W. Houck argues that there is not necessarily a conflict between this Christian teaching and mainstream biology. He draws on neglected texts outside the Summa Theologiae to show that Aquinas focused on humanity's loss of friendship with God - not the corruption of nature (or personal guilt). Aquinas's account is theologically attractive in its own right. Houck proposes, moreover, a new Thomist view of original sin that is consonant with evolution. This account is developed in dialogue with biblical scholarship on Jewish hamartiology and salient modern thinkers (including Kant, Schleiermacher, Barth, and Schoonenberg), and it is systematically connected to debates over nature, grace, the desire for God, and justification. In addition, the book canvasses a number of neglected premodern approaches to original sin, including those of Anselm, Abelard, and Lombard.