ABSTRACT

In recent scholarship there is an emerging interest in the integration of philosophy and theology. Philosophers and theologians address the relationship between body and soul and its implications for theological anthropology. In so doing, philosopher-theologians interact with cognitive science, biological evolution, psychology, and sociology. Reflecting these exciting new developments, The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology is a resource for philosophers and theologians, students and scholars, interested in the constructive, critical exploration of a theology of human persons. Throughout this collection of newly authored contributions, key themes are addressed: human agency and grace, the soul, sin and salvation, Christology, glory, feminism, the theology of human nature, and other major themes in theological anthropology in historic as well as contemporary contexts.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part I|29 pages

Methodology in Theological Anthropology

chapter 1|12 pages

The Madness in Our Method

Christology as the Necessary Starting Point for Theological Anthropology

chapter 2|16 pages

Scripture and Philosophy on the Unity of Body and Soul

An Integrative Method for Theological Anthropology

part II|45 pages

Theological Anthropology, the Brain, the Body, and the Sciences

part III|73 pages

Models for Theological Anthropology

chapter 7|12 pages

Self-Organizing Personhood

Complex Emergent Developmental Linguistic Relational Neurophysiologicalism

chapter 9|12 pages

Anthropological Hylomorphism

chapter 10|14 pages

Substance Dualism

chapter 11|12 pages

The Human Person as Communicative Event

Jonathan Edwards on the Mind/Body Relationship

chapter 12|12 pages

Why Emergence?

part IV|68 pages

Theological Models of the Imago Dei

part V|27 pages

Human Nature, Freedom, and Salvation

part VI|69 pages

Human Beings in Sin and Salvation

chapter 20|16 pages

Created Corruptible, Raised Incorruptible

The Importance of Hylomorphic Creationism to the Free Will Defense

chapter 21|16 pages

Redemption of the Human Body

chapter 24|10 pages

Glory and Human Nature

part VII|39 pages

Christological Theological Anthropology

chapter 25|14 pages

The Mortal God

Materialism and Christology

chapter 26|10 pages

Hylomorphic Christology