Research Catalog

Title

The evolution of rationality : interdisciplinary essays in honor of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen / edited by F. LeRon Shults.

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Van Huyssteen, Wentzel.
• Shults, F. LeRon.

Description

xiii, 426 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Practical reason
• Van Huyssteen, Wentzel
• Religion and science
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Philosophy and religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-422).

Contents

Introduction / F. LeRon Shults -- 1. The evolution of van Huyssteen's model of rationality / Kenneth A. Reynhout -- I. Philosophical Explorations: -- 2. Traces of rationality: acknowledgment, recognition, and repetition / Calvin O. Schrag -- 3. Rational theory building: beyond modern enthusiasm and postmodern refusal (a pragmatist philosophical offering) / Wesley J. Wildman -- 4. Rationality and different conceptions of science / Mikael Stenmark -- 5. Van Huyssteen in context: a comparison with Philip Hefner and Karl Peters / Jerome A. Stone -- 6. Religion and the social sciences: reflections on the human quest for meaning / Philip Clayton -- 7. Realism, religion, and the public sphere: challenges to rationality / Roger Trigg -- 8. Reason and the Enlightenment / Keith Ward -- II. Scientific Explorations: -- 9. Spirituality and religion in paleolithic times / Jean Clottes -- 10. Building bridges to the deep human past: consciousness, religion, and art / David Lewis-Williams -- 11. The origins of human cognition and the evolution of rationality / Ian Tattersall -- 12. From the bison at Niaux to the Kyoto Protocol: science, religion, and the challenge of human nature / Christopher Southgate -- 13. Generating life on earth: five looming questions / Holmes Rolston III -- 14. Darwinism: foe or friend? / Michael Ruse -- 15. Rationality and interpreted experience: the efficacy of phenomenal consciousness / Michael L. Spezio -- 16. Science and the self: what difference did Darwin make? / John Hedley Brooke -- III. Theological Explorations: -- 17. How music models divine creation and creativity / Arthur Peacocke -- 18. Four Gods of Christian faith / Delwin Brown -- 19. What theology might learn (and not learn) from evolutionary psychology: a postfoundationalist theologian in conversation with Pascal Boyer / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- 20. Toward a transversal model of interdisciplinary thinking in practical theology / Richard Robert Osmer -- 21. The Psalms and lyric verse / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp -- 22. Types of natural theology / David Fergusson -- 23. Public theology in postfoundational tradition / George Newlands

Call Number

JFE 07-2243

ISBN

• 0802827896 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780802827890 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006026703

OCLC

71044371

Title

The evolution of rationality : interdisciplinary essays in honor of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen / edited by F. LeRon Shults.

Imprint

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-422).

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Van Huyssteen, Wentzel.

Shults, F. LeRon.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-2243