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$\"\"$ <\/a>Hans Madueme was until recently the Managing Director<\/a> of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, my former employer.\u00a0 He is now Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies<\/a> at Covenant College.<\/p>\n

Hans is one of the sharpest guys I know.\u00a0 He recently wrote a fantastic essay for Themelios, <\/em>the online evangelical journal (that\u2019s readable and actually understandable) in which he graciously but thoroughly critiqued the theology and hermeneutic of Pete Enns<\/a>, Old Testament theologian and former professor at Westminster Theological Seminary.\u00a0 You may not be up on the conversation on Enns; suffice it to say that he\u2019s 1) quite gifted and 2) the champion of a non-inerrantist scriptural hermeneutic (though he says otherwise) that threatens disaster for the evangelical worldview (he believes that we don\u2019t need a historical Adam contra<\/em> Romans 5, for example).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a bit from the essay<\/a>, which is one of the most helpful overviews of the state of conservative evangelical theology that I\u2019ve read of late:<\/p>\n

Enns is worried that evangelicals will self-destruct if we keep denying what mainstream science is telling us. He is worried that our young people are growing up as intellectual schizophrenics, believing one thing in church and another thing in the lab\u2014and suffering under the mental strain. Many are leaving the faith because they see only two choices, affirm Adam or abandon ship. And a number of emerging evangelical scholars are disillusioned and discouraged by the chilly reception their hard-earned views of Scripture have received from Mafioso, muscle-flexing evangelical gatekeepers. His book is an attempt to bring healing and to offer a different way. I understand where Enns is coming from, but his book, I am sorry to say, is a cure far worse than the disease. I have tried to explain some of my reasons for this negative judgment, and I hope they stimulate further conversation (with Enns and others). I recognize the force of the mainstream evolutionary consensus, and I know that it raises tough questions for the viability of a historical Adam and the doctrine of the fall. But I am constrained by Scripture, tradition, and weighty theological considerations. I am a son of Adam. That is why I am a sinner. And it is why I need Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the whole thing.<\/a>\u00a0 Keep an eye out for the larger work in which this essay will fall.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"