Christian Naturalism
Christian Thinking for Living in This World Only
Published on 31. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-6667-3637-3 (ISBN)
Description
Is it possible to believe that our life in this world is all there is and be Christian? Karl Peters says yes. We can think about God as the creativity of the world. About our life as beginning when we were hydrogen atoms, so that everything is family. About how the evils of sexism, racism, and speciesism (climate change) arose in human history. Peters says that Jesus is fully human. His mother, Mary, was raped by a Roman soldier. And he is savior by being an inspiring moral example of how we should live--loving God completely and our neighbor as ourselves. Through evolution we are related to everything else. Therefore, we should love as family all varieties of humans, other species, and the planet itself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
256 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6667-3637-3 (9781666736373)
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08/2022
Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Person
Karl E. Peters is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Rollins College Winter Park, Florida. He is former editor and co-editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Peters is the author of Dancing with the Sacred: Evolution, Ecology, and God and Spiritual Transformations: Science, Religion, and Human Becoming.