Adam, Eve, and the genome : the Human Genome Project and theology / edited by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite.

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2003], ©2003.

xvi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Introduction: liberation theology in dialogue with the Human Genome Project / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- Science of Genetics: Setting the context: a brief history of science by a sympathetic theologian: Aristotle and Plato, Islamic science, medieval science in the west, Reformation and the Renaissance, Descartes, Newton, Darwin, Freud / Laurel Schneider -- An introduction to Medelian genetics: Gregor Mendel and peas, DNA, Autosomal recessive conditions, autosomal dominant conditions, X-Linked conditions / Lainie Friedman Ross -- From peapods to the Human Genome Project: post-Mendelian genetics: Chromosomal variations, clinical genetics, ethical and policy issues / Lainie Friedman Ross -- Being human: Theological anthropology and the Human Genome Project: theology and science, bringing theology to the HGP, redemption and resurrection, Imago Dei, reflections on Romans / Theodore W. Jennings Jr. -- Adam, Eve, and the genome: genome as "text", quest for a "gay gene" as "etiological text", story of Adam and Eve as "etiological text", who asks etiological questions? / Ken Stone -- Critical issues: Dreaming the soul: African American skepticism encounters the HGP: racism in American history as a feature of the American dream, a way out of the nightmare: a different dream of being human, dreaming of freedom, the new dream, on being human / Lee H. Butler, Jr. -- A gene for violence? Genetic determinism and sin: a short history of the doctrine of sin, genetic determinism, flies who rape?, flawed science, human freedom and genetics, human dignity/in the image of God, social sin and human violence, to sin rationally / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- The chemistry of community: the "case" of hyptertension in African Americans, the "case" of breast cancer, grace, soul body dualism, the grace of community / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.