Imago Dei, Dualism, and Evolution: A Philosophical Defense of the Structural Image of God: with Helen De Cruz and Yves De Maeseneer, “The Imago Dei: Evolutionary and Theological Perspectives”; Aku Visala, “Imago Dei, Dualism, and Evolution: A Philosophical Defense of the Structural Image of God”; Olli-Pekka Vainio, “Imago Dei and Human Rationality”; Johan De Smedt and Helen De Cruz, “The Imago Dei as a Work in Progress: A Perspective from Paleoanthropology”; Tom Uytterhoeven, “Co-creating Co-creators? The ‘Human Factor’ in Education”; Johan De Tavernier, “Morality and Nature: Evolutionary Challenges to Christian Ethics”; and Taede A. Smedes, “Emil Brunner Revisited: On the Cognitive Science of Religion, the Imago Dei, and Revelation.”

Most contemporary theologians have distanced themselves from views that identify the image of God with a capacity or a set of capacities that humans have. This article examines three arguments against the structural view and finds them wanting. The first argument is that the structural view entails...

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Main Author: Visala, Aku (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2014
In: Zygon
Year: 2014, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-120
Further subjects:B Mind
B Physicalism
B Evolution
B Evolutionary Psychology
B Theological Anthropology
B image of God (imago Dei)
B Philosophy
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