Today is the second of six posts by Karl Giberson, noted speaker and writer about the intersection of Christian faith and science (see the first post here). Giberson is blogging on his new book The Wonder of the Universe: Hints of God in a Fine-Tuned World (IVP). The series includes 6 excerpts from the book: the opening and closing sections of the book, and 4 representative samples from the rest. Giberson is the author of several books on the subject, including Saving Darwin:... Read more
Today we welcome guest blogger Karl Giberson. Giberson is an internationally recognized voice of the science/faith conversation. He is the author of several books on the subject, including Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution, The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions, and The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age(with Randall J. Stephens). Giberson is also co-founder of BioLogos, along with Francis Collins and current president Darrell Falk. (See his complete... Read more
Michael Mercer, over at Internet Monk, posted today a wonderful piece on a man I have admired for the past 17 years, Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera. It is a great post, and reading it took me back for a few minutes….. I stopped having sports heros sometime during high school–mainly because I aspired to be one myself. I played organized baseball since I was 9. My parents were German immigrants and so I had to discover the game for myself. And like most of... Read more
I was interviewed a week or so ago by a UK Internet magazine Christian.co.uk on….what else…what I think about Adam and why it matters one way or the other. As typically happens, a lengthy, nuanced conversation in inevitably reduced to fit a publication. Still, the issues as laid out here may be of interest to some of you. You can read the interview at http://www.christian.co.uk/the-evolution-of-evolution-p1896 Read more
I wanted to follow up a bit on my recent post citing Larry Hurtado’s prophetic denouncement of the increasingly common acts of injustice toward Christian faculty members. The following are reasonable parameters to follow when administrations find themselves, for whatever reason, at odds with a colleague, who is also a brother or sister in Christ. 1. Christian colleges and seminaries have every right to establish theological parameters that are consistent with their mission and understanding of fidelity to the gospel. Academic freedom does not mean “anything... Read more
This past weekend I took part in a conference at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh, PA, sponsered by St. Thomas and the Center for Biblical Studies and by a generous gift from the Philadelphia Theological Insitute. The conference was on Making Sense of the Old Testament. The main speaker was Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann, author of, as of this weekend, 58 books (though who knows what he did on the plane ride home–ha ha). He is perhaps best... Read more
Larry Hurtado (internationally recognized scholar of New Testament and Christians origins and recently retired from the University of Edinburgh) posted today a hard-hitting commentary on the current state of Christian academic institutions, where administrators shoot their faculty first and ask questions later, or not at all. Hurtado has become quite exasperated at the unreasonable and dictatorial manner in which good scholars are dismissed from their academic posts for holding positions deemed outside of the bounds without due process and a genuine academic exchange of ideas. Hurtado does... Read more
“Most countries construct myths of their origins … and speak of those myths in divine hues,” said Franklin T. Lambert, professor of history at Purdue University, during an April 18 lecture at Mercer University. Lambert contends that the United States is no different. Now, there’s food for thought. When American’s say that we are God’s country or that we were founded as a Christian nation, how different are we from ancient cultures–Egyptian, Babylonian, Csnaanite, and Israelite–that made the same claim?... Read more
The answer is yes, and I’ve got the book to prove it. Well, actually, I don’t have it yet, and neither do you. The book is not coming out until October (Oxford University Press). But at least I have the cover. I also have the PDF page proofs, but I won’t let you people get your mitts on that quite yet. This book originated in a symposium sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania on October 25, 2010.... Read more
A couple of days ago, James K. A. Smith posted a review of The Evolution of Adam on his new science/faith website “The Colossian Forum.” Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin College and senior fellow at newly minted Colossian Forum, which hopes to provide a “new kind of conversation” free of fear and animosity–an admirable goal. The next day, J. R. Daniel Kirk (assistant professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary) seemed quite eager to oblige Smith in his quest for conversation. Kirk was none... Read more
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