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The Material Image

Reconciling Modern Science and Christian Faith

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The Material Image

Reconciling Modern Science and Christian Faith

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In The Material Image, Donald H. Wacome sets out to reconcile the Christian faith and contemporary science by embracing, rather than evading, its naturalistic implications. The sciences are our best way to know ourselves and the world we inhabit, Wacome argues, but this does not make belief in miracles unreasonable. The sciences reveal that we are fully material beings, the product of unguided natural selection. God created human persons for the vocation of sharing in the everlasting Triune life and work, but this creation does not involve design. The mind is the embodied, socially situated brain. There is no immaterial soul; we are the material image of our transcendent Creator. This materialist conception does not preclude the resurrection of the body. The freedom that matters for the human creature is compatible with our being governed by the laws of nature. Morality and religion are natural, merely human, legacies of our evolutionary history, which God employs in pursuit of fellowship with us. Christians can faithfully and enthusiastically welcome the image of human beings given in contemporary science.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Christianity, Naturalism, and Science

Chapter 2. Knowledge

Chapter 3. Miracles

Chapter 4. Origins

Chapter 5. Mind

Chapter 6. Freedom

Chapter 7. Morality

Chapter 8. Religion

Chapter 9. Resurrection

Product details

Published 29 Sep 2020
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 346
ISBN 9781978703919
Imprint Fortress Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Donald H. Wacome

Donald H. Wacome is professor of philosophy at Nor…

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