Research Catalog

Title

Adam, Eve and the genome : the Human Genome Project and theology / edited by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite.

Publication

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks, 1948-
• Schneider, Laurel C., 1961-
• Ross, Lainie Friedman.
• Jennings, Theodore W., Jr., 1942-
• Stone, Ken (Kenneth A.), 1962-
• Butler, Lee H., 1959-

Description

xvi, 200 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Theology and the sciences

Subjects

• Genetic engineering > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Human Genome Project
• Human gene mapping
• Genetic engineering > Moral and ethical aspects
• Feminist theology
• Liberation theology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references in notes (175-187), glossary, and index.

Contents

Introduction: liberation theology in dialogue with the Human Geneome Project / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- Science of Genetic: Setting the context: a brief history of science by a sympathetic theologian: Aristotle and Plato, Islamic science, medieval science and the west, Reformation and the Renaissance, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Freud / Laurel Schneider -- An introduction to Medelian genetics: Gregor Mendel and peas, DNA, Autosomal recessive conditions, autosomal dominant conditions, X-Linked conditions / Lainie Friedman Ross -- From peapods to the Human Genome Project: post-Mendelian genetics: Chromosomal variations, clinical genetics, ethical and policy issues / Lainie Friedman Ross -- Being human: Theological anthropology and the Human Genome Project: theology and science, bringing theology to the HGP, redemption and resurrection, Imago Dei, reflection on Romans / Theodore W. Jennings Jr. -- Adam, Eve, and the genome: genome as text, quest for a "gay gene" as "etiological text", story of Adam and Eve as "etiological text", who asks etiological questions? / Ken Stone -- Critical issues: Dreaming the soul: African American skepticism encounters the HGP: racism in American history as a feature of the American dream, a way out of the nightmare, a different dream of being human, dreaming of freedom, the new dream, on being human / Lee H. Butler, Jr. -- A gene of violence? determinism and sin: a short history of the doctrine of sin, genetic determinism, flies who rape?, flawed science, human freedom and genetics, human dignity in the image of God, social sin and human violence, to sin rationally / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- The chemistry of community: the "case" of hyptertension in African Americans, the "case" of breast cancer, grace, soul body dualism, the grace of community / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite.

Call Number

JFE 04-1022

ISBN

0800636147

OCLC

53399362

Title

Adam, Eve and the genome : the Human Genome Project and theology / edited by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite.

Imprint

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2003.

Series

Theology and the sciences

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references in notes (175-187), glossary, and index.

Added Author

Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks, 1948-

Schneider, Laurel C., 1961-

Ross, Lainie Friedman.

Jennings, Theodore W., Jr., 1942-

Stone, Ken (Kenneth A.), 1962-

Butler, Lee H., 1959-

Research Call Number

JFE 04-1022