Human Death in Theological Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology: Disambiguating (im)mortality as Ecumenical Solution
Human death is natural from the perspective of evolutionary biology but unnatural from the vantage point of classical Christian theology. The biblical notion that death entered the world as a result of sin seems hard to square with the view that (human) death has been an integral part of the natural...
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Year: 2022, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 869-888 |
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