Background
Williams, Patricia Anne was born on May 26, 1944 in Alexanderia, Virginia, United States. Daughter of Samuel Leonard and Kay Cloaninger Williams.
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Where Christianity Went Wrong, When, : and What You Can Do About It
("Curious about the historical Jesus? Read this book. Find...)
"Curious about the historical Jesus? Read this book. Find out what the best scholars say about him—in language anyone can understand. This book tells about Jesus from Nazareth, the human person, whom Christianity proclaims to be fully human, as human as you are. Jesus was born and grew up as a Jew. He lived in the Holy Land, which was ruled by the Roman Empire. He became a disciple of John the Baptist. After John died, Jesus returned to Galilee but not to his family, who thought him crazy. He walked the Galilean hills, met all kinds of people, ate with them, and argued with them. As he traveled, he told people about God’s presence in their lives every day, as they kneaded bread, planted vineyards, went to court, sought healing, and prayed. This book helps you understand Jesus as a man: what he taught, how he lived, and why he was crucified. It discusses his resurrection—all the biblical depictions. It describes his ascension as the New Testament tells it and as we must understand it in the universe that we inhabit. It also suggests why his life-style and message matter to you now, and what you can do to become more like him. It will help you answer the question we so often ask, What would Jesus do? It offers options for living in the secular world. It discusses possible choices of church. This book is about Jesus, and why he matters to you today."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0083VLBJC/?tag=2022091-20
DOING WITHOUT ADAM AND EVE: SOCIOBIOLOGY AND ORIGINAL SIN (THEOLOGY & THE SCIENCES) By Williams, Patricia A ( Author) 2001 Paperback
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Quakerism: A Theology for Our Time QUAKERISM Paperback
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Evolution Evolving: What Everyone Needs to Know by Patricia A. Williams (2009) Paperback
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Doing Without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin (Theology and the Sciences) Paperback - June, 2001
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Where Christianity Went Wrong, When, and What You Can Do About It
("Curious about the historical Jesus? Read this book. Find...)
"Curious about the historical Jesus? Read this book. Find out what the best scholars say about him--in language anyone can understand. This book tells about Jesus from Nazareth, the human person, whom Christianity proclaims to be fully human, as human as you are. Jesus was born and grew up as a Jew. He lived in the Holy Land, which was ruled by the Roman Empire. He became a disciple of John the Baptist. After John died, Jesus returned to Galilee but not to his family, who thought him crazy. He walked the Galilean hills, met all kinds of people, ate with them, and argued with them. As he traveled, he told people about God's presence in their lives every day, as they kneaded bread, planted vineyards, went to court, sought healing, and prayed. This book helps you understand Jesus as a man: what he taught, how he lived, and why he was crucified. It discusses his resurrection--all the biblical depictions. It describes his ascension as the New Testament tells it and as we must understand it in the universe that we inhabit. It also suggests why his life-style and message matter to you now, and what you can do to become more like him. It will help you answer the question we so often ask, What would Jesus do? It offers options for living in the secular world. It discusses possible choices of church. This book is about Jesus, and why he matters to you today."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401021921/?tag=2022091-20
Doing Without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin (Theology and the Sciences)
(In this provocative new addition to the Theology and the ...)
In this provocative new addition to the Theology and the Sciences series, Patricia Williams assays the original sin doctrine with a scientific lens and, based on sociobiology, offers an alternative Christian account of human nature's foibles and future.Focusing on the Genesis 2 and 3 account, Williams shows how its "historical" interpretation in early Christianity not only misread the text but derived an idea of being human profoundly at odds with experience and contemporary science. After gauging Christianity's several competing notions of human nature -- Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox -- against contemporary biology, Williams turns to sociobiological accounts of the evolution of human dispositions toward reciprocity and limited cooperation as a source of human good and evil. From this vantage point she offers new interpretations of evil, sin, and the Christian doctrine of atonement.Williams's work, frank in its assessment of traditional misunderstandings, challenges theologians and all Christians to reassess the roots and branches of this linchpin doctrine.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0800632850/?tag=2022091-20
Revealing God: A New Theology From Science and Jesus
(Revealing God seeks to understand God through contemporar...)
Revealing God seeks to understand God through contemporary means. It assumes God creates the physical world science discloses, and Jesus parables depict God s relationship to humanity. Each reveals the same God.
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Quakerism: A Theology for Our Time
(Quakerism: A Theology for Our Time elucidates the origina...)
Quakerism: A Theology for Our Time elucidates the original Quaker theology of the seventeenth century and demonstrates how it is complemented by modern science and biblical criticism for fruition faith.
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Evolution Evolving: What Everyone Needs to Know
(Evolution Evolving focuses on five advances in our unders...)
Evolution Evolving focuses on five advances in our understanding of evolution: (1) Darwins contributions, especially of natural selection, (2) genetics, (3) sociobiology, (4) developmental biology, and (5) evolution through time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0741455803/?tag=2022091-20
Patricia Anne Williams
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, College.William and Mary, 1966. Master of Arts in English, University Virginia, 1967. Master of Arts in Philosophy, University Virginia, 1985.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Guelph, 1989.
Career
Lecturer La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 1968—1971. Assistant professor Virginia State University, Petersburg, 1990—1995. Delaware Citizen Ambassador People to People Program, China, 1993.
Achievements
Works
book
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Doing Without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin (Theology and the Sciences)
(In this provocative new addition to the Theology and the ...)
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Evolution Evolving: What Everyone Needs to Know
(Evolution Evolving focuses on five advances in our unders...)
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Quakerism: A Theology for Our Time
(Quakerism: A Theology for Our Time elucidates the origina...)
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Revealing God: A New Theology From Science and Jesus
(Revealing God seeks to understand God through contemporar...)
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Where Christianity Went Wrong, When, : and What You Can Do About It
("Curious about the historical Jesus? Read this book. Find...)
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Where Christianity Went Wrong, When, and What You Can Do About It
("Curious about the historical Jesus? Read this book. Find...)
- Doing without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin (Theology & the Sciences) by Patricia Williams (19-Jun-2001) Paperback
- DOING WITHOUT ADAM AND EVE: SOCIOBIOLOGY AND ORIGINAL SIN (THEOLOGY & THE SCIENCES) By Williams, Patricia A ( Author) 2001 Paperback
- Quakerism: A Theology for Our Time QUAKERISM Paperback
- Evolution Evolving: What Everyone Needs to Know by Patricia A. Williams (2009) Paperback
- Doing Without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin (Theology and the Sciences) Paperback - June, 2001
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Doing Without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin (Theology and the Sciences)
Membership
Member American Civil Liberties Union, since 1973. Charter member United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, since 1993. Member Southern Poverty Law Center Wall of Toleration, Montgomery.
Member of Institute Religion in an Age of Science, International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (program chairman 1992-1993), Philosophy of Science Association, American Philosophical Association.
