Toward an Evolutionary Ecology of Meaning

Abstract. I will discuss some of the implications of the ongoing Darwinian revolution for theology as a constructor and interpreter of human meaning. Focus will be directed toward the following issues: How should we best understand ourselves in the new, evolutionary cosmos? What are the problems wit...

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1. VerfasserIn: Wicken, Jeffrey S. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 1989
In: Zygon
Jahr: 1989, Band: 24, Heft: 2, Seiten: 153-184
weitere Schlagwörter:B Evolution
B Relationality
B Ecology
B Spirit
B Responsibility
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract. I will discuss some of the implications of the ongoing Darwinian revolution for theology as a constructor and interpreter of human meaning. Focus will be directed toward the following issues: How should we best understand ourselves in the new, evolutionary cosmos? What are the problems with the kind of genetic reductionism espoused by neo-Darwinism? How are those problems resolved by the “relational” understanding of life made available by thermodynamics and ecology? How do we generate meaning-structures in this relationally-constituted cosmos? Finally, how do these developments enrich our understandings of responsibility—to each other and to our private conceptions of God?
ISSN:1467-9744
Enthält:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1989.tb01110.x