The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology

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In recent scholarship there is an emerging interest in the integration of philosophy and theology. Philosophers and theologians address the relationship between body and soul and its implications for theological anthropology. In so doing, philosopher-theologians interact with cognitive science, biological evolution, psychology, and sociology. Reflecting these exciting new developments, The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology is a resource for philosophers and theologians, students and scholars, interested in the constructive, critical exploration of a theology of human persons. Throughout this collection of newly authored contributions, key themes are addressed: human agency and grace, the soul, sin and salvation, Christology, glory, feminism, the theology of human nature, and other major themes in theological anthropology in historic as well as contemporary contexts. Cover Contents List of Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Methodology in Theological Anthropology 1 The Madness in Our Method: Christology as the Necessary Starting Point for Theological Anthropology 2 Scripture and Philosophy on the Unity of Body and Soul: An Integrative Method for Theological Anthropology Part II Theological Anthropology, the Brain, the Body, and the Sciences 3 Evolutionary Biology and Theological Anthropology 4 Theological Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences 5 Theological Anthropology and the Brain Sciences 6 Feminism and Theological Anthropology Part III Models for Theological Anthropology 7 Self-Organizing Personhood: Complex Emergent Developmental Linguistic Relational Neurophysiologicalism 8 Physicalism, Bodily Resurrection, and the Constitution Account 9 Anthropological Hylomorphism 10 Substance Dualism 11 The Human Person as Communicative Event: Jonathan Edwards on the Mind/Body Relationship 12 Why Emergence? Part IV Theological Models of the Imago Dei 13 A Substantive (Soul) Model of the Imago Dei: A Rich Property View 14 Why the Imago Dei Should Not Be Identified with the Soul 15 The Dual-Functionality of the Imago Dei as Human Flourishing in the Church Fathers 16 Ecclesial-Narratival Model of the Imago Dei 17 A Christological Model of the Imago Dei Part V Human Nature, Freedom, and Salvation 18 Free Will and the Stages of Theological Anthropology 19 Human Beings, Compatibilist Freedom, and Salvation Part VI Human Beings in Sin and Salvation 20 Created Corruptible, Raised Incorruptible: The Importance of Hylomorphic Creationism to the Free Will Defense 21 Redemption of the Human Body 22 Redemption, the Resurrected Body, and Human Nature 23 Theosis and Theological Anthropology 24 Glory and Human Nature Part VII Christological Theological Anthropology 25 The Mortal God: Materialism and Christology 26 Hylomorphic Christology 27 A Cartesian Approach to the Incarnation Index Index of Scripture References