There is a potential conflict between the picture of the human situation disclosed by genetic research and the assumptions of religious belief about what it means to be a person.
Keywords: soul; God; personhood; faith; freewill
Christianity and Genetics
Paul Badham, University of Wales Lampeter, Ceredigion, UK
Published online: September 2006
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005884
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| Further Reading | |
| book Badham P (1976) Christian Beliefs about Life after Death. London, UK: Macmillan. | |
| book Badham P (1998) The Contemporary Challenge of Modernist Theology. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press. | |
| book Crabbe J (1999) From Soul to Self. London, UK: Routledge. | |
| book Rolston III H (1999) Genesis, Genes and God. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Watts F (ed.) (1998) Where Science Meets Faith London, UK: SPCK. | |
