In recent scholarship there is an emerging interest in the integration of philosophy and theology. Philosophers and theologians address the relationship between body and soul and its implications for theological anthropology. In so doing, philosopher-theologians interact with cognitive science, biological evolution, psychology, and sociology. Reflecting these exciting new developments, The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology is a resource for philosophers and theologians, students and scholars, interested in the constructive, critical exploration of a theology of human persons. Throughout this collection of newly authored contributions, key themes are addressed: human agency and grace, the soul, sin and salvation, Christology, glory, feminism, the theology of human nature, and other major themes in theological anthropology in historic as well as contemporary contexts.

Joshua R. Farris is completing The Soul of Theological Anthropology (forthcoming, Routledge, 2016) and co-editing Idealism and Christian Theology (forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic).

Charles Taliaferro has extensive experience in editing original essays, being the co-editor of the first two editions of the Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Religion, the Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology, and the Routledge Companion to Theism. Taliaferro is the co-author with Jil Evans of The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination (Continuum, 2013).

Introduction

1 The Madness in Our Method: Christology as the Necessary Starting Point for Theological Anthropology

2 Scripture and Philosophy on the Unity of Body and Soul: An Integrative Method for Theological Anthropology

3 Evolutionary Biology and Theological Anthropology

4 Theological Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences

5 Theological Anthropology and the Brain Sciences

6 Feminism and Theological Anthropology

7 Self-Organizing Personhood: Complex Emergent Developmental Linguistic Relational Neurophysiologicalism

8 Physicalism, Bodily Resurrection, and the Constitution Account

9 Anthropological Hylomorphism

10 Substance Dualism

11 The Human Person as Communicative Event: Jonathan Edwards on the Mind/Body Relationship

12 Why Emergence?

13 A Substantive (Soul) Model of the Imago Dei: A Rich Property View

14 Why the Imago Dei Should Not Be Identified with the Soul

15 The Dual-Functionality of the Imago Dei as Human Flourishing in the Church Fathers

16 Ecclesial-Narratival Model of the Imago Dei

17 A Christological Model of the Imago Dei

18 Free Will and the Stages of Theological Anthropology

19 Human Beings, Compatibilist Freedom, and Salvation

20 Created Corruptible, Raised Incorruptible: The Importance of Hylomorphic Creationism to the Free Will Defense

21 Redemption of the Human Body

22 Redemption, the Resurrected Body, and Human Nature

23 Theosis and Theological Anthropology

24 Glory and Human Nature

25 The Mortal God: Materialism and Christology

26 Hylomorphic Christology

27 A Cartesian Approach to the Incarnation