Showing posts with label Creation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creation. Show all posts
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Theodicy and Determinism: The Folly of Leibniz's "Best Possible World"

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Theodicy:  In Christian theology,any attempt to reconcile the occurrence of evil and/or suffering in the world with the traditional thei...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Natural (s)Election, Part Two: Anthropocentrism, Myopia, and the Uniqueness of Humanity

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Read  Part One . The acceptance of evolution by theologians is inevitable. Why say this? Because it must be. The Christian faith canno...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Theistic Evolution: A Theological Narrative

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What follows is offered up as a provisional theological narrative for a Christian account of theistic evolution: 1. Creatio ex nihilo  (...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Seven Views on Creation, Evolution, and Divine Intervention

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1. Young Earth Creationism: Supernatural explanations account for the origin of the universe, the apparent age of the earth and its ...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

The Essence of Sin & the Freedom to Become

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The freedom-to-become assumed in creatio ex nihilo takes on a new significance with the awakening of consciousness and the actualizati...

Imago Dei, Divine Risk & the Freedom to Become

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Any attempt to present a coherent theistic-evolutionary understanding of creation must begin with the idea of divine kenosis , or "...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Babel-Fish & ID: My conversation with a proponent of Intelligent Design

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(Note: Attempts to prove the existence of God empirically, like the arguments proposed by the Intelligent Design movement, I like to re...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Humpty Dumpty and The Idols of Our Thinking

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Based on a recent conversation in another forum: Once upon a time I too was a "top-down thinker," vainly imagining that if my...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Sound Bite Theology: Liberation from the fallacy of historical reification

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As a theistic-evolutionist, I am free to accept the stories of Genesis as mythological. Hence, I am not compelled to reify historically, ...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Response to Kevin DeYoung's Top Ten Reasons to Believe in a Historical Adam

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See DeYoung's article in  The Aquila Report . 1. The Bible does not put an artificial wedge between history and theology. Of cours...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Paradise Imagined (Part Two): Toward an evolutionary account of Original Sin

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See also:  Paradise Imagined ( Part One )  and  The Two Minds of Augustine . [The story of the Fall] is the profoundest and richest ex...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

God's Purpose or Nature's Dice? The proper role of teleology in an evolutionary account of the cosmos

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An early pioneer of theistic-evolutionary thought, the Jesuit scholar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), suggested that the course ...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Paradise Imagined (Part One): Toward an evolutionary account of Original Sin

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Though a theistic-evolutionist might at first be tempted to set aside the doctrine of Original Sin as the product of a "pre-scient...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Theosis Realized: An evolutionary look at creation, the fall, and our restoration in Christ (Part Two)

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"God does not exist without humanity, because God has decided in Jesus Christ not to be God without us. Likewise, humanity does not...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Theosis Interrupted: An evolutionary look at the creation of the cosmos and the fall of Adam (Part One)

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Creation is an act of kenosis , i.e. a “self-emptying,” whereby the Creator pours out the divine-self to “make room” for something oth...
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