Christianity and Evolutionary Ethics: Sketch Toward a Reconciliation

Abstract. Evolutionary ethics posits the evolution of dispositions to love self, kin, and friend. Christianity claims that God's ethical demand is to love one's neighbor. I argue that the distance between these two positions can be interpreted theologically as original sin, the disposition...

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Main Author: Williams, Patricia A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1996
In: Zygon
Year: 1996, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 253-268
Further subjects:B Michael Ruse
B Atonement
B Evolutionary Ethics
B Love Command
B Original Sin
B Christianity
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