Evolutionary Creation 2 (RJS)

Last updated on: November 30, 2010 at 6:02 am By RJS

The second chapter of Denis O. Lamoureux’s book Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution provides a sketch of five basic categories for common views on creation, Genesis, and human origins – young earth creation, old earth or progressive creation, evolutionary creation, deistic evolution, and dysteleological evolution.The sketches are designed to highlight the distinctions between the various positions and avoids much of the nuance; thus many will find that their view falls in the cracks between the sketches. I am... Read more

The Baptism Question

Last updated on: November 27, 2010 at 9:07 am By Scot McKnight

One of the fundamental questions many today ask of baptism is this: Does it do anything? Or, is it effective for salvation? Where are you on the baptism questions? What are your clear and fixed points? Are you at the Sacramental end or the Symbolic end of this discussion? Is it possible to construct a theology of baptism solely on the NT or does the Tradition somehow enter into the discussion to create questions that the NT does not quite... Read more

God is in the Manger

Last updated on: November 29, 2010 at 6:50 pm By Scot McKnight

I will be posting about Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas , edited by Jana Riess. The first week of Bonhoeffer’s book about Advent ponders the first week as Waiting. Bonhoeffer: “Celebrating Advent means being able to wait. … Whoever does not know the austere blessedness of waiting — that is, of hopefully doing without — will never experience the full blessing of fulfillment.” I was struck by that “hopefully … doing without.” Think... Read more

Sufjan

Last updated on: November 28, 2010 at 2:17 pm By Scot McKnight

Books of the Year 2010

Last updated on: November 24, 2010 at 4:03 pm By Scot McKnight

Here are the 2010 nominations for Books of the Year at the Jesus Creed blog. The awards are given early this year so folks can use this list for Christmas presents. My favorite Christmas present is a book, but I have to admit my family quit buying books for me for Christmas years ago. (So I sneak one under the shelf “To Scot from Scot.”) I decided to choose one top Book of the Year, and had a number to... Read more

Patheos Preaching

Last updated on: November 29, 2010 at 6:52 am By Scot McKnight

Patheos is doing some sermons on our site, and I have to send up big signals for the strategy of Daniel Harrell, who is doing a series on preaching through the Fathers. Here he dips into Ambrose’s theory of celibacy … I’m looking forward to this quality of resources at Patheos. Read more

Entitlements (by T)

Last updated on: November 22, 2010 at 12:35 pm By Scot McKnight

T is a lawyer friend of this blog, as many of you know. Here is a post on entitlements. Let me say how much I appreciate this sort of post, and how so many step to write posts for the blog. It is this that makes up the Jesus Creed blog. Many people are concerned about “entitlements” these days. Usually what we mean by entitlements are the government-provided benefits that some people become “entitled to receive” by meeting certain legally... Read more

Doubt, an Essay by Pete Enns

Last updated on: November 25, 2010 at 7:54 am By Scot McKnight

Doubt is no small dimension of the faith of many Christians. The sadness of doubt is that pain and anguish experienced by the doubter is often compounded by other Christians who can’t comprehend it — or who condemn it as an unworthy Christian condition. Those who have experienced doubt, as I have said here before, learn to walk with a limp — but they keep on walking. I think you will see the same in this excellent piece by my... Read more

God is in the Manger

Last updated on: November 28, 2010 at 1:18 pm By Scot McKnight

I will be posting about Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas , edited by Jana Riess. The first week of Bonhoeffer’s book about Advent ponders the first week as Waiting. Jesus comes to us not only at Advent but also in the form of the beggar … “He confronts you in every person that you meet. As long as there are people, Christ will walk the earth as your neighbor.” If we turn from... Read more