Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences

by Hans Madueme

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2024

Overview

The conflict between the natural sciences and Christian theology has been going on for centuries. Recent advances in the fields of evolutionary biology, behavioral genetics, and neuroscience have intensified this conflict, particularly in relation to origins, the fall, and sin. These debates are crucial to our understanding of human sinfulness and necessarily involve the doctrine of salvation. Theistic evolutionists have labored hard to resolve these tensions between science and faith, but Hans Madueme argues that the majority of their proposals do injustice both to biblical teaching and to long-standing doctrines held by the mainstream Christian tradition.

In this major contribution to the field of science and religion, Madueme demonstrates that the classical notion of sin reflected in Scripture, the creeds, and tradition offers the most compelling and theologically coherent account of the human condition. He answers pressing challenges from the physical sciences on both methodological and substantive levels. Scholars, pastors, students, and interested lay readers will profit from interacting with the arguments presented here.

Key Features

• Demonstrates that the classical notion of sin reflected in Scripture, the creeds, and tradition offers the most compelling and theologically coherent account of the human condition
• Explores the conflict between the natural sciences and Christian theology
• Answers pressing challenges from the physical sciences on both methodological and substantive levels

Product Details

• Title: Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences
• Author: Hans Madueme
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible › Theology; Sin › Christianity; Sin › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9781493446162, 9780801098000, 9781540967787, 9781493446148, 9781493446155, 0801098009, 1540967786, 1493446142, 1493446150, 1493446169
• Resource ID: LLS:DFNDNGSNNTSCNCS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-16T18:03:17Z

About Hans Madueme

Hans Madueme, (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is professor of theological studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and an editorial board member for Themelios. He is the co-editor of Adam, the Fall, and Original Sin: Theological, Biblical, and Scientific Perspectives and the author of Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences. Before training in theology, Madueme received his MD and completed his medical residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic.