Justin L. Barrett 
Thriving with Stone Age Minds [EPUB ebook] 
Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human Flourishing

What does God's creation of humanity through the process of evolution mean for human flourishing? The emerging field of evolutionary psychology remains controversial, perhaps especially among Christians. Yet according to Justin Barrett and Pamela Ebstyne King it can be a powerful tool for understanding human nature and our distinctively human purpose.
Thriving with Stone Age Minds provides an introduction to evolutionary psychology, explaining key concepts like hyper-sociality, information gathering, and self-control. Combining insights from evolutionary psychology with resources from the Bible and Christian theology, Barrett and King focus fresh attention on the question, What is human flourishing? When we understand how humans still bear the marks of our evolutionary past, new light shines on some of the most puzzling features of our minds, relationships, and behaviors.
One key insight of evolutionary psychology is how humans both adapt to and then alter our environments, or ‘niches.’ In fact, we change our world faster than our minds can adapt—and then gaps in our ‘fitness’ emerge. In effect, humans are now attempting to thrive in modern contexts with Stone Age minds. By integrating scientific evidence with wisdom from theological anthropology, we can learn to close up nature-niche gaps and thrive, becoming more what God has created us to be.
Bio Logos Books on Science and Christianity invite us to see the harmony between the sciences and biblical faith on issues including cosmology, biology, paleontology, evolution, human origins, the environment, and more.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Introduction
1. Wrestling with Evolutionary Psychology, Embracing Christian Theology
2. What Is Thriving?
3. Why Aren’t We Thriving?: Nature-Niche Gap
4. Social Gaps
5. Getting and Using Information
6. Self-Control
7. A Summary and a Puzzle
8. What Is Your Telos?
Afterword
Study Guide by Madeleine Hernandez and Justin Barrett
References
General Index
Scripture Index

Sobre o autor

Pamela Ebstyne King (Ph D, Fuller Theological Seminary) is the executive director of the Thrive Center and the Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. She is coauthor of The Reciprocating Self and coeditor of The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence.