Emerging in the Image of God to Know Good and Evil

Abstract. Found in the Primeval History in Genesis, the biblical concepts of the “image of God” and the “knowledge of good and evil” remain integral to Christian anthropology, especially with regard to the theologoumena of “fall” and “original sin.” All of these symbols are remained important and ap...

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Published in:Zygon
Main Author: Roberts, Jason P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
In: Zygon
Further subjects:B negative contrast experience
B created co-creator
B Myth
B second naïveté
B humans-being-and-becoming-in-relation
B theory of meaning
B constitutive utterance
B Relationality
B Original Sin
B imago Dei or image of God
B Emergence
B Falling
B knowledge of good and evil
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Summary:Abstract. Found in the Primeval History in Genesis, the biblical concepts of the “image of God” and the “knowledge of good and evil” remain integral to Christian anthropology, especially with regard to the theologoumena of “fall” and “original sin.” All of these symbols are remained important and appropriate descriptors of the human condition, provided that contemporary academic theological anthropology engages in constructive dialogue with the natural and social sciences. Using Paul Ricoeur's notion of “second naïveté experience,” I illustrate the hermeneutical significance of contemporary bio-cultural or socio-biological evolutionary theory for reformulating these concepts of Christian anthropology today.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01184.x