Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I. Preliminary Philosophical Questions
Chapter 1. In the Beginning: Evolution’s Challenge to Christian Teaching on Human Origins
Chapter 2. On What Grounds? Debates at the Heart of Our Inquiry
Chapter 3. Machine or Melody? How God Creates through Evolution
Part II. How to Read the Bible’s Creation Narratives
Chapter 4. How to Keep the Faith without Losing Your Mind: Reading Genesis with Benedict XVI and the Catholic Tradition
Chapter 5. Myth, History, or Something Else? The Message of Scripture’s Creation Narratives in Their Native Context
Chapter 6. Who Is the Man? Adam as Israel, the First Man, and Every Man
Part III. Understanding Man’s Special Creation and the Fall in an Evolutionary Context
Chapter 7. Dust and Breath: Man’s Evolutionary Origins and the Image of God
Chapter 8. Relationship Rupture: What Original Sin Is and Is Not
Chapter 9. Putting the Last Adam First: Suffering and Death in the Light of Christ Crucified
Chapter 10. Sinless yet Sorrowful: The Blessed Virgin and the Problem of How to Suffer Well
Epilogue. Evolution and Eschatology: Jesus Christ, the Alpha and Omegaof All Creation
Appendix. More Than Just a Hypothesis: Sources for the Study of Evolution
Bibliography
Index