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Religion and an evolutionary theory of knowledge
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In this article, an evolutionary theory of knowledge involving not only conceptual but also behavioral and experiential knowledge is presented. But the evolutionary theory does not address the problem of religious knowledge in a pluralistic age and how a nonpersonal, evolutionary understanding of God might be religiously adequate.Abstract:
This paper outlines an evolutionary theory of knowledge involving not only conceptual but also behavioral and experiential knowledge It suggests human knowledge is continuous at the behavioral and experiential level with that of nonhuman animals By contrasting an evolutionary understanding of ultimate reality (God) with the more traditional, personalistic understanding, the paper shows how an evolutionary epistemology applies to religion in terms of both general and special revelation Finally, the paper explores how one might respond to the problem of religious knowledge in a pluralistic age and how a nonpersonal, evolutionary understanding of God might be religiously adequateread more
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Evolutionary Epistemology Bibliography
TL;DR: This is a successor to the most complete previous bibliography (Campbell, DT, 1974, Evolutionary Epistemology In PA Schilpp (Ed), The philosophy of Karl R Popper The library of living philosophers as mentioned in this paper ).
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Comprehensive evolutionary epistemology bibliography
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Human salvation in an evolutionary world: an exploration in christian naturalism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a view of Jesus as a "religious genius" who, grounded in a direct experience of God, taught undiscriminating love and engaged in nonviolent political activism against the unjust domination system of the Roman Empire.
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Toward an evolutionary ecology of meaning
TL;DR: In this paper, the implications of the ongoing Darwinian revolution for theology as a constructor and interpreter of human meaning are discussed, focusing on the following issues: How should we best understand ourselves in the new, evolutionary cosmos? What are the problems with the kind of genetic reductionism espoused by neo-Darwinism? How are those problems resolved by the "relational" understanding of life made available by thermodynamics and ecology? How do we generate meaning-structures in this relationally-constituted cosmos?
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A christian naturalism: developing the thinking of gordon kaufman
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a theological naturalism using Gordon Kaufman's nonpersonal idea of God as serendipitous creativity in contrast to the personal metaphorical theology of Sallie McFague.