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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA REFORMATA TRANSYLVANICA - Ediţia nr.2 din 2022  
         
  Articol:   BOOK REVIEW: CHAIK, CAREL VAN – MICHEL, KAI, THE GOOD BOOK OF HUMAN NATURE: AN EVOLUTIONARY READING OF THE BIBLE. HACHETTE BOOK GROUP; USA; 2016; 480 PAGES; ISBN: 0465074707.

Autori:  KRISTÓF LEGÉNDY.
 
       
         
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Published Online: 2022-12-29
Published Print: 2022-12-30
pp. 303-309

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The book co-authored by primatologist Carel van Schaik and historian Kai Michel offers a truly interesting reading for theologists and scientists alike. They examine the Bible as a historical record of the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens. Their basic thesis is that the texts of the Bible came into being during the cultural evolution from a hunter-gatherer way of life to a settled agricultural lifestyle, even if they were not composed as a direct result of the revolution of farming (as the two events were thousands of years apart). The Bible was written by countless authors, but God was not one of them – claim the co-authors. In fact, the working approach and basic concept of their book views the spiritual reading of the Bible as merely a subsequent addition or extra layer, and thus it was primarily written for those open to a purely scientific exegesis of the texts of the Bible, those willing to forgo its moral-spiritual interpretation. There is no room for me to present every point made in the book step by step from Genesis up to the Gospels – partly because it is a work of nearly 500 pages –, therefore I will only give highlights of what the co-authors mean by an evolutionary reading of the Bible.
 
         
     
         
         
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