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Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution
Author: Houck Daniel W.
Drawing on Aquinas, Houck proposes a groundbreaking theory of original sin that is theologically robust and consonant with evolutionary theory.
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Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution
Publication date: 08-2022
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Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution
Publication date: 03-2020
292 p. · 15.8x23.5 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 03-2020
292 p. · 15.8x23.5 cm · Hardback
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Is original sin compatible with evolution? Many today believe the answer is 'No'. Engaging Aquinas's revolutionary account of the doctrine, Daniel W. Houck argues that there is not necessarily a conflict between this Christian teaching and mainstream biology. He draws on neglected texts outside the Summa Theologiae to show that Aquinas focused on humanity's loss of friendship with God - not the corruption of nature (or personal guilt). Aquinas's account is theologically attractive in its own right. Houck proposes, moreover, a new Thomist view of original sin that is consonant with evolution. This account is developed in dialogue with biblical scholarship on Jewish hamartiology and salient modern thinkers (including Kant, Schleiermacher, Barth, and Schoonenberg), and it is systematically connected to debates over nature, grace, the desire for God, and justification. In addition, the book canvasses a number of neglected premodern approaches to original sin, including those of Anselm, Abelard, and Lombard.
1. Augustine and the long twelfth century; 2. Aquinas on original justice; 3. Aquinas on the effects of original sin; 4. Aquinas on original guilt; 5. Original sin and some modern theologians; 6. Original sin and the challenge of evolution; 7. Original sin; 8. A response to some objections.
Daniel W. Houck is senior pastor of Calvary Hill Baptist Church (Fairfax) and adjunct professor of theology at the John Leland Center for Theological Studies. A research fellow at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2017–18, his publications have appeared in journals such as Archa Verbi and Nova et Vetera.
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