Maximus the Confessor and Evolutionary Biology (Routledge Science and Religion Series)

by: Andrew P. Jackson (Author)

Publisher:

Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 2024/11/4

Language: English

Print Length: 224 pages

ISBN-10: 1032763299

ISBN-13: 9781032763293

Book Description

This book brings Maximus the Confessor’s logoi doctrine into dialogue with mode-day evolutionary biology. It explores the extent to which the logoi, as described by Maximus, exhibit features that are concordant with evolution before going on to consider more discordant aspects that cannot be ignored. The author addresses the curious resonance between the logoi and evolution in a systematic way through a close reading of primary textual material allied with a deep understanding of both the classical Darwinian and ‘extended’ evolutionary syntheses. The study joins with other Maximian interpreters in attesting to the incaational and theophanic nature of the logoi, but seeks to extend this distinctively Easte Christo-cosmology into the problematic territory of biological evolution, a territory historically dominated by Weste scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion and science, as well as Patristics and the Easte Orthodox theological traditions.

About the Author

This book brings Maximus the Confessor’s logoi doctrine into dialogue with mode-day evolutionary biology. It explores the extent to which the logoi, as described by Maximus, exhibit features that are concordant with evolution before going on to consider more discordant aspects that cannot be ignored. The author addresses the curious resonance between the logoi and evolution in a systematic way through a close reading of primary textual material allied with a deep understanding of both the classical Darwinian and ‘extended’ evolutionary syntheses. The study joins with other Maximian interpreters in attesting to the incaational and theophanic nature of the logoi, but seeks to extend this distinctively Easte Christo-cosmology into the problematic territory of biological evolution, a territory historically dominated by Weste scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion and science, as well as Patristics and the Easte Orthodox theological traditions.