This book explores the philosophical and theological significance of evolutionary anthropology and includes diverse approaches to the relationship between evolution, culture and religion.
This book explores the philosophical and theological significance of evolutionary anthropology and includes diverse approaches to the relationship between evolution, culture, and religion. Particular emphasis is placed on the work of Michael Tomasello, who contributes an opening chapter that tackles the role of religion in his natural history of human thinking and human morality. The first section of the book considers the philosophical foundations of evolutionary anthropology and shows that evolutionary anthropology is open to a multitude of philosophical analyses. The second part offers theological perspectives on the relationship between evolutionary and theological anthropology and between evolution and religion. The volume also reflects more broadly on the complex relationship between religion and science in the contexts of late-modern societies. It makes a significant contribution to the religion and science debate and offers performative evidence that an interdisciplinary discussion between theologians, philosophers, and natural scientists is feasible.
1 Introduction-Martin Breul and Caroline Helmus; 2 Some Thoughts on
Evolution, Culture, and Religion-Michael Tomasello; Part I The Philosophical
Foundations of Evolutionary Anthropology; 3 Michael Tomasellos Vision of
Human Uniqueness and the Place of Human Religion-Wesley Wildman;4 How
Transcendental Aristotelianism can integrate Tomasellos Natural History of
Morality-Christian Illies; 5 Pointing as Intending. On the Social and
Cognitive Significance of Deictic Communication-Henning Tegtmeyer; Part II
Theological Perspectives on Evolutionary Anthropology; 6 The Nature of
Humanity and the Origins of Religion: Contributions from Michael
Tomasello-Marcia Pally; 7 Tomasello and Kant. Religious Faith and the
Evolution of MoralityEmpirical Support for Kants Postulates of Practical
Reason?-Martin Breul; 8 Embodied Image of God. Evolutionary Anthropology in
Theological Perspective-Gregor Etzelmüller; 9 Cultural Learning, Embodiment
and Relationality in Evolutionary and Theological Anthropology-Caroline
Helmus; Part III Broadening the View: Further Reflections on Religion,
Science, and Modernity; 10 Deficiency Guarantee? Jürgen Habermas on the
Anthropological and Evolutionary Function of the Sacred Complex-Thomas M.
Schmidt; 11 Between Relevance and Redundancy. Thoughts on the Profile of
Theology in the Ever-Accelerating Late Modernity-Anne Weber; 12 Excess and
Evolution. The Transgressive Sources of (R)Evolution-Sarah Rosenhauer
Martin Breul is Substitute Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute of Catholic Theology, the University of Dortmund, Germany.
Caroline Helmus is a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Catholic Theology, the University of Tübingen, Germany.
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