William Cavanaugh
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Evolution And The Fall
$29.99Add to cartTackles thorny questions and tensions at the intersection of Scripture and science
What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates-as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest-then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?
This book gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address these difficult questions from the perspectives of biology, theology, history, Scripture, philosophy, and politics. After mapping the territory of challenging questions surrounding human origins and the Fall, the contributors delve into biblical sources and traditional theological accounts as resources for understanding, consider broader cultural implications of the Fall, and propose ways of reimagining the conversation so as to move forward faithfully.
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Eerdmans Reader In Contemporary Political Theology
$68.99Add to cartAfter decades of modernist secularism, religion is making a stunning comeback in public life – not as a deracinated abstraction but as theologically informed, committed faith.An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology brings together forty-nine essential readings in political theology from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, presenting them thematically, pairing them with insightful new introductions from expert scholars, and providing an important resource for scholars and students alike.
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Migrations Of The Holy
$25.99Add to cartWhether one thinks that “religion” continues to fade or has made a comeback in the contemporary world, there is a common notion that “religion” went away somewhere, at least in the West. But William Cavanaugh argues that religious fervor never left – it has only migrated toward a new object of worship. In Migrations of the Holy he examines the disconcerting modern transfer of sacred devotion from the church to the nation-state. In these chapters Cavanaugh cautions readers to be wary of a rigid separation of religion and politics that boxes in the church and sends citizens instead to the state for hope, comfort, and salvation as they navigate the risks and pains of mortal life. When nationality becomes the primary source of identity and belonging, he warns, the state becomes the god and idol of its own religion, the language of nationalism becomes a liturgy, and devotees willingly sacrifice their lives to serve and defend their country. Cavanaugh urges Christians to resist this form of idolatry, to unthink the inevitability of the nation-state and its dreary party politics, to embrace radical forms of political pluralism that privilege local communities – and to cling to an incarnational theology that weaves itself seamlessly and tangibly into all aspects of daily life and culture.
