| Summary: | Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Person and Personhood: Introductory Questions -- Why Is Personhood Conceptually Difficult? -- Flesh-Body-Heart-Soul-Spirit: Paul's Anthropology as an Interdisciplinary Bridge--Theory -- Emergence, the Quest for Unity, and God: Toward a Constructive Christian Theology of the Person -- II. Scientific Perspectives in Interdisciplinary Dialogues -- Towards an Integrated Anthropology -- Brains, Minds, Souls, and People: A Scientific Perspective on Complex Human Personhood -- The Emergence of Human Distinctiveness -- Hierarchical Selection and the Evolutionary Emergence of "Spirit" -- III. Sources of the Christian Traditions in Historical and Global Contexts -- "Soul" and "Spirit" in the Anthropological Discourse of the Hebrew Bible -- Sarx, Soma, and the Transformative Pneuma: Personal Identity Endangered and Regained in Pauline Anthropology -- Augustine's Aporetic Account of Persona and the Limits of Relatio: A Reconsideration of Substance Ontology and Immutability -- Augustine's Investigation into Imago Dei -- The Affects of the Soul and the Effects of Grace: On Melanchthon's Understanding of Faith and Christian Emotions -- The Concept of "Body" in Indian Christian Theological Thought -- IV. Contemporary Theological, Ethical, and Interdisciplinary Challenges -- The Dignity of Human Personhood and the Concept of the "Image of God" -- Human Dignity and the Concept of Person in Law -- On the Relation of Personhood and Embodiment -- Can Ethics Be Fully Naturalized? -- Beyond Distinct Gender Identities: The Social Construction of the Human Body -- Moral Inwardness Reconsidered -- Human Personhood at the Edges of Life: Medical Anthropology and Theology in Dialogue -- Contributors
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