Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences

by Hans Madueme

Overview

"This book offers a defense of the classical doctrine of sin in dialogue with the natural sciences, helping readers to winsomely engage with a range of controversial debates surrounding human origins, the fall, and original sin"--

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781540967787
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/28/2024
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Hans Madueme (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is professor of theological studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. He previously served as the managing director of the Henry Center for Theological Understanding and the associate director of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Madueme is on the editorial board of Themelios and is a senior editor for Sapientia. He is also the coeditor of Adam, the Fall, and Original Sin and Reading Christian Theology in the Protestant Tradition.

Table of Contents

Setting the Stage: Changing Conceptions of Sin
Part 1: Authority
1. Science, Theology, and Biblical Authority
2. Biblical Realism: A Dogmatic Proposal
Part 2: Protology
3. Early Genesis and Extrabiblical Knowledge
4. The Unity of the Human Race
5. The Doctrine of Original Goodness
Part 3: Hamartiology
6. The Fall of Adam and Eve
7. Original Sin and the Biological Problem
8. Souls and the Nature of Sin
Conclusion: Science and the Evangelical Dogmatics of Sin
Indexes