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The Evolution of Human Wisdom (Hardcover)
Celia Deane-Drummond, Agustin Fuentes; Contributions by Marcus Baynes-Rock, Dylan Belton, Ben Campbell, …
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This volume addresses key questions about the puzzle of human
origins by focusing on a topic that is largely unexplored thus far,
namely, the evolution of human wisdom. How can we best understand
the human capacity for wisdom, where did it come from, and how did
it emerge? It explores lines of convergence and divergence between
Christian theology and evolutionary anthropology in its search to
identify different aspects of wisdom. Critical to this discussion
are the philosophical difficulties that arise when two very
different methodological approaches to the manner of humans
becoming wise are brought together. The relative importance and
significance of human language is another area of intense debate in
defining the meaning of wisdom and its expression. How far and to
what extent does a theologically informed wisdom discourse push
evolutionary anthropology to formulate new questions and vice
versa? This volume shows that there is no simple consonance between
evolutionary anthropology and theology. Yet, each discipline has
much to learn from the other; the authors are in agreement that
even in the midst of an awareness of dissonance and some tension,
there can still be mutual respect. The goal of this book is to
begin to develop a trans-disciplinary approach to the evolution of
human wisdom, where each discipline is challenged to ask questions
in a new way. This volume tackles the relationship between theology
and science in a fresh way by focusing on a specific
theme-wisdom-that is equally generative for both theology and
evolutionary anthropology.
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