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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction, Joshua R. Farris and Charles Taliaferro Part I Methodology in Theological Anthropology 1 The Madness in Our Method: Christology as the Necessary Starting Point for Theological Anthropology, Marc Cortez 2 Scripture and Philosophy on the Unity of Body and Soul: An Integrative Method for Theological Anthropology, John W. Cooper Part II Theological Anthropology, the Brain, the Body, and the Sciences 3 Evolutionary Biology and Theological Anthropology, Joshua M. Moritz 4 Theological Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences, Aku Visala 5 Theological Anthropology and the Brain Sciences, Daniel N. Robinson 6 Feminism and Theological Anthropology, Emilie Judge-Becker and Charles Taliaferro Part III Models for Theological Anthropology 7 Self-Organizing Personhood: Complex Emergent Developmental Linguistic Relational Neurophysiologicalism, Warren S. Brown and Brad D. Strawn 8 Physicalism, Bodily Resurrection, and the Constitution Account, Omar Fakhri 9 Anthropological Hylomorphism, Bruno Niederbacher, S.J. 10 Substance Dualism, Stewart Goetz 11 The Human Person as Communicative Event: Jonathan Edwards on the Mind/Body Relationship, Marc Cortez 12 Why Emergence?, William Hasker Part IV Theological Models of the Imago Dei 13 A Substantive (Soul) Model of the Imago Dei: A Rich Property View, Joshua R. Farris 14 Why the Imago Dei Should Not Be Identified with the Soul, Joel B. Green 15 The Dual-Functionality of the Imago Dei as Human Flourishing in the Church Fathers, Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J. 16 Ecclesial-Narratival Model of the Imago Dei, Dominic Robinson, S.J. 17 A Christological Model of the Imago Dei, Oliver Crisp Part V Human Nature, Freedom, and Salvation 18 Free Will and the Stages of Theological Anthropology, Kevin Timpe and Audra Jenson 19 Human Beings, Compatibilist Freedom, and Salvation, Paul Helm Part VI Human Beings in Sin and Salvation 20 Created Corruptible, Raised Incorruptible: The Importance of Hylomorphic Creationism to the Free Will Defense, Nathan A. Jacobs 21 Redemption of the Human Body, Adam G. Cooper 22 Redemption, the Resurrected Body, and Human Nature, Stephen T. Davis 23 Theosis and Theological Anthropology, Ben C. Blackwell and Kris A. Miller 24 Glory and Human Nature, Charles Taliaferro Part VII Chris tological Theological Anthropology 25 The Mortal God: Materialism and Christology, Glenn Andrew Peoples 26 Hylomorphic Christology, Josef Quitterer 27 A Cartesian Approach to the Incarnation, J.H.W. Chan