Patricia A. Williams taught philosophy at Virginia State University, has authored many scholarly articles on the philosophy of biology, and is co-editor of Evolution and Human Values (1995). She was recently elected a fellow of the Jesus Seminar.
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Preface Introduction Part One: The Demise of Adam and Eve 1. Science, Scripture, and Doctrine -Science and Scripture -Central Scriptural Doctrines -Central Theological Doctrines -Controversial Doctrines 2. Tests of Truth -The Interpreter and Canalization -The Coherence Test -The Correspondence Test -The Consilience Test 3. The Fall -The Early Church -Harold Bloom -A Gnostic Christian -Augustine 4. Original Sin -Calvin and Protestantism -The Canalization of Evil -Aquinas and Catholicism -Athanasius and Orthodoxy 5. The Demise of Adam and Eve -Coherence and Genesis 1-3 -Correspondence and Genesis 1-9 -Consilience in Science -The Demise of Adam and Eve 6. Scripture and Truth -Coherence and the Torah -Symbolic Truth in Genesis 2 and 3 -Correspondence and the Gospels -The Authority of Scripture Part Two: The Unification of Science and Christianity 7. The Theory of Evolution -Coherence and Natural Selection -Correspondence and Speciation -Consilience and Human Evolution -Canalization and Resistance 8. The Sociobiological Consilience -The Evolution of Altruism -Altruism's Legacy -Reciprocity -Human Sociality 9. Original Sin and Sociobiology -Freedom -Sin -Love -Punishment 10. The Problem of Evil -A Developing Universe -Locating Ourselves -Locating Evil -Solving the Problem 11. The Atonement -Four Difficulties -Jesus and Sin -Suffering and Death -Atonement Now Conclusion Glossary References Index