Page |34 did Nygren oppose the caritas view of from evolutionary psychology and social Christian love? The answer is that the neuroscience. meaning of love as caritas did exactly Moral Implications of Kin Altruism what Nygren thought Paul and Luther, and Inclusive Fitness his theological heroes, did not do. In the classic Roman Catholic view, love as As is well known, the idea of caritas builds on eros. Caritas was seen inclusive fitness was first put forth in to include natural desires for health and 1964 by William Hamilton. ” affiliation. But the caritas view of love Hamilton’s view of inclusive fitness also held that religious education and holds that living beings not only struggle God’s grace built on and expanded these for their individual survival but for the natural inclinations to entail a self-giving survival of offspring and kin who also benevolence to others, even strangers carry their genes. Their altruism is and enemies — an idea so central to the likely to be proportional to the concept of Christian love. percentage of their genes that others . carry. This insight was further naturalistic for Nyeren. It sevmed to develaped, oy thie concept of parental play down the importance of God’s Trivers (I 573) detin ister al nasil daial i — other f investment by the parent in an individual his day such as Karl Barth and Rudolph Sheen ot suniving. eomapeng ina cing Cen ove petal to es nt Christian love from nature and desire — ose ssiemsingtielnint were at the Beatuitug with Nearen'é strona each f sociobiology and were first brought to ; the wider public attention by E.O. agape and the strong supernaturalism of Wilsons Sociobiology: The Mew both Nygren and Barth, there was little Synthesis (1975). room in these mid-twentieth century Protestant trends for a productive But the moral implications of the dialogue between Christian ethics and concept of inclusive fitness, parental the new scientific advances in moral investment, and kin altruism have psychology, evo