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EXPLORING THE CONCEPT OF SPIRIT AS A MODEL FOR THE GOD-WORLD RELATIONSHIP IN THE AGE OF GENETICS |
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| Authors: | Lindon Eaves Lora Gross |
| Institution: | Lindon Eaves is Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 3 MCV Station, Richmond, VA 23298-0003.;Lora Gross is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 98447. |
| Abstract: | Abstract. The cultural impact of genetics focuses the intellectual and moral challenge of science to theology. Many traditional images of God and the God-world relation are inadequate to represent religious ideas in a world whose self-understanding has been transformed by genetics. Such images also lack the power to help in approaching the ethical challenges of this new era. The way conceptions of the God-world relation can be modified in the light of genetic knowledge is explored by examining how far a new conception of Spirit can function alongside contemporary genetic views of human life in nature. The relationship between genetic theories of human behavior and evolution is related to the revised conception of Spirit. |
| Keywords: | behavior DNA evil evolution genetics grace immanence natural selection ontology Spirit |