Maximus the Confessor and Evolutionary Biology

The Phylogenetic Logoi

Andrew P. Jackson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-76329-3 (ISBN)

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This book brings Maximus the Confessor’s logoi doctrine into dialogue with modern-day evolutionary biology. It explores the extent to which the logoi, as described by Maximus, exhibit features that are concordant with evolution before going on to consider more discordant aspects that cannot be ignored. The author addresses the curious resonance between the logoi and evolution in a systematic way through a close reading of primary textual material allied with a deep understanding of both the classical Darwinian and ‘extended’ evolutionary syntheses. The study joins with other Maximian interpreters in attesting to the incarnational and theophanic nature of the logoi, but seeks to extend this distinctively Eastern Christo-cosmology into the problematic territory of biological evolution, a territory historically dominated by Western scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion and science, as well as Patristics and the Eastern Orthodox theological traditions.

Andrew P. Jackson is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK.

1. Introduction 2. The Evolutionary logoi 3. The Christo-forming logoi 4. The Purposeful logoi 5. The Good logoi 6. Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Science and Religion Series
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	571 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-032-76329-9 / 1032763299
ISBN-13	978-1-032-76329-3 / 9781032763293
Zustand	Neuware