Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love [Kindle Edition] Author: Elizabeth A. Johnson | Language: English | ISBN:
B00GTMQ4MQ | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Direct download links available Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love Epub Free for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human being`s relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1,000 times the natural rate, renders this question acutely important.Standard perspectives need to be realigned; theology needs to look out of the window, so to speak as well as in the mirror. Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love leads to the conclusion that love of the natural world is an intrinsic element of faith in God and that far from being an add-on, ecological care is at the centre of moral life. Direct download links available for Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love Epub Free
- File Size: 3578 KB
- Print Length: 353 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1472903730
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum; 1 edition (January 16, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00GTMQ4MQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I couldn't wait for this book when I heard Sr. Johnson was going to explore the tension between Darwin and Creationism and Christian environmental ethics. If anybody was going to do it really well, my hunch was that it would be Sr. Beth Johnson. And again, she exceeded my expectations. Howeveer, I was very happily surprised when I saw that these hot issues aren't really what this book is about. I was caught off guard when she only used these issues as background to her intelligently argued and beautifully written testament to the wonder of God's creation by carefully and critically examining the brilliance of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species and how his work shaped what we know about the scientific beginnings of life on this Earth. Sr. Johnson probably offers the most understandable and even-handed summary of Darwin's life and work; quite extraordinary for a theologian. (I had the honor of meeting her and she is as brilliant as she is gracious.) She is very clear that her work isn't about Evolution vs. Creationism and all the arguments surrounding that today. As a theologian who has the utmost respect for the advances in scientific breakthroughs through the human genome project and new discoveries about cell biology that Darwin was right all along in his life-time study of the orgins of life. She carefully and, I think, wonderfully, respectfully separates the idea of any scientific view of Genesis. She argues that in the scientific realm that has been proven by the scientific method that it is scientifically unlikely that an intelligent designer literally or "magically" (I not sure this is the right word.) created life as we know it today. (That humanity was nothing one second and the next second was fully-formed like humanity today.
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