Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology

Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, UK. Agustín Fuentes is the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor and Departmental Chair of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

• List of Contributors; Introduction: Dialogues in Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology-Celia Deane-Drummond, Agustín Fuentes; Part I: Mapping the Terrain; 1: Setting the Stage: Developing the Human Niche across the Pleistocene-Agustín Fuentes; 2: The Emergence of Complexity and Novelty in the Human Fossil Record-Rebecca Rogers Ackermann, Lauren Schroeder; Part II: Wisdom; Introductory Commentary: Wisdom- Celia Deane-Drummond, Wentzel van Huyssteen; 3: On Homo naledi and its Significance in Evolutionary Anthropology-John Hawks, Lee Berger; 4 Becoming Wise: What Can Anthropologists Say about the Evolution of Human Wisdom?- Marc Kissel; 5 On the Origin of Symbols: Archaeology, Semiotics, and Self-Transcendence-Andrew Robinson; Part III: Humility; Introductory Commentary: Humility-Wendy Black; 6 Archaeological Evidence for Human Social Learning and Sociality in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa-Jayne Wilkins; 7 An Animal in Need of Wisdom: Theological Anthropology and the Origins of Humility and Wisdom-Jan-Olav Henriksen; 8 The Loss of Innocence in the Deep Past: Wisdom, Humility, and Grace within a Developing Understanding of the Emergence of Human Moral Emotions-Penny Spikins; 9 Searching for the Soul of Homo: The Virtue of Humility in Deep Evolutionary Time-Celia Deane-Drummond; Part IV: Grace; Introductory Commentary: Grace-Celia Deane-Drummond, Agustín Fuentes; 10 What Difference Does Grace Make? An Exploration of the Concept of Grace in the Theological Anthropology of Karl Rahner- Karen Kilby, J. Matthew Ashley; 11 Grace in Evolution- Oliver Davies; 12 Continuities and Discontinuities in Human Evolution- Jonathan Marks

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