{"title":"The Development of Dogma: A Systemic Account. By Guy Mansini. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. Pp. x, 192. $29.95.","authors":"Terrance Klein","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"192-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RESPONSE: Reckoning with Sin and the Misuse of Power: Responding to Essays on Biocultural Evolution","authors":"Christa L. McKirland","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14401","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This response essay engages with four scholars on the topic of biocultural evolution. A major question running across each of the essays regards how sin and the misuse of power might feature into these proposals.</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"183-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response: The Problem of Shifting Scientific Paradigms: On Avoiding Premature Closure of Questions in Science and Religion","authors":"Alister E. McGrath","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14403","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper responds to the papers gathered together in this volume on biocultural evolution by focusing particularly on two of them that raise questions of particular interest. Victoria Lorrimar's critique of purely rationalist accounts of both the scientific enterprise in general, and human quest for truth and meaning on the other. It develops Lorrimar's argument that the human sense-making apparatus is complex and dispersed, enfolding what are generally described as ‘reason’, ‘imagination’, and ‘intuition’. Michael Burdett's reflection on evolutionary theory indirectly raises a neglected problem that clearly requires further attention—the question of follow-through on theological assessments of developments in the natural sciences, particularly evolutionary biology. Discussion of some questions in the field of science and religion often tends to be ‘frozen’ at a specific historical point, and subsequently discussed without reference to downstream reflections. This point is illustrated by reflecting on the 2013 collaborative project between the theologian Sarah Coakley and the evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak, which emphasised the role of cooperation within the evolutionary framework. It is important to ensure ongoing engagement with such questions, rather than leaving them suspended in an incomplete state of resolution, or ‘freezing’ the provisional answers given decades ago, as if these were definitive. [Correction added on 12 April 2025: Abstract section have been included in this version.]</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"174-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/heyj.14403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Icon of the Kingdom of God: An Orthodox Ecclesiology. By Radu Bordeianu. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. Pp. vii, 364. $34.95.","authors":"John Anthony McGuckin","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"198-199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identity and Coherence in Christology: One Person in Two Natures. By Paul S. Scott. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 190. £145.00.","authors":"Thomas G. Weinandy OFM","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"199-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"God, The Good And The Spiritual Turn In Epistemology. By Roberto Di Ceglie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. ix, 235. £75.00.","authors":"Benjamin Murphy","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"195-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation. By Alex Fogleman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv, 256. £85.00.","authors":"John Sullivan","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"196-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biocultural Evolution, Play, and Theological Aesthetics","authors":"Megan Loumagne Ulishney","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14400","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay argues that a renewed focus on the importance of embodied social play for people of all ages, but especially for children and teenagers, is an essential element of forming an interdisciplinary response to the mental health crises facing children and young people today. It examines the role of play from the perspective of the sciences, especially psychology and evolutionary biology, but it also draws insights from philosophy and theology to extend its arguments into the arenas of theological anthropology and aesthetics. In addition to the many psychological, emotional, physical, cognitive, and social benefits of play, there is research to suggest that forms of juvenile play, especially ‘pretend play’, in children contribute to the development of capacities relevant for aesthetic experience and expression such as creativity, symbolic representation, mental flexibility, and imagination. This suggests that attention to play and, more broadly, to childhood and children, is important for developments in theological aesthetics. It suggests, at the same time, that theology has important grounds to insist on the goodness of play ‘for its own sake’, while also celebrating the downstream evolutionary benefits of play.</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"115-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/heyj.14400","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Purpose and Providence in Evolutionary Perspective: Considerations for Theological Anthropology in Light of Biocultural Evolution and Genetic Engineering","authors":"Michael Burdett, Andrew Jackson","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14399","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We argue here that bringing insights from evolution and bioengineering to bear on traditional accounts of divine providence helps to illustrate just how complex providence is and how difficult it is to achieve. While other non-human animals might exhibit greater agency in creation and its evolutionary development than has traditionally been recognised, we contend non-human animals don't meet the threshold for acting providentially. However, the interplay between biological and cultural evolution prior to the arrival of modern human beings gives us a fresh perspective on God's providence through these intermediate forms that are much more interlinked than previously afforded. When considering the human being, the complexity and difficulty of achieving genuine providence is even more acute. Here human beings bear the potential to act providentially by having the capacities for foresight, benevolence, and power, but are still limited in exercising each of these in specific instances—often failing owing to weakness or deliberate intention. Human power to influence or create existing and new creaturely and evolutionary trajectories through substantial cultural production and bioengineering should be met with great humility, sobriety, and prudence, because our foresight and benevolence are profoundly limited.</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"157-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/heyj.14399","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}