I have a new guest post on the Science and the Sacred Blog or the BioLogos Foundation (@BioLogosOrg on Twitter). This one is called “Let’s Come at This From a Different Angle.” I propose that our reading of the opening chapters of the Bible ought to be informed by the closing chapters of the Bible.
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My friends (and now colleagues) at the BioLogos Foundation recently asked me to write a series of blog posts for them concerning how an incarnational approach to Scripture might contribute toward clearing away some misunderstandings that have exacerbated the perceived conflict between the Bible and science. The first three posts in that series are linked [...]
On December 1, 2009, the BioLogos Foundation published the following announcement:
The BioLogos Foundation is happy to announce that biblical scholar Pete Enns has joined our team as a senior fellow of biblical studies. Enns is an evangelical Christian scholar and author of several books and commentaries, including the popular Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the [...]
Starting today Science and the Sacred, the blog of the BioLogos Foundation, is running a series of guest post by me, titled “Science and an Incarnational Approach to the Bible.”
Click here to read the first post.
In Part 1 of my review of God’s Word in Human Words by Kenton Sparks, I set out what I saw as the central tenets of the book. We now continue with my report on a panel discussion of the book in which I participated this past fall.
PART 2: SBL Panel Discussion
On November 23, 2008, [...]
I continue my responses to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.
I respond to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.
Biblical theology reminds us of the Christ-centered heart of the Scripture, of its history as the history of redemption. Theologizing, as the application of that redemptive history, then becomes eschatological in a deeper sense than we usually think. it is an eschatology defined not only with reference to the second coming of Christ but inclusive [...]
Theology become functionally the queen of the sciences, the watchdog of the academic world, the ultimate universal. Combined with Western ethnocentrism, it produces the tacit assumption ‘that the Christian faith is already fully and properly indigenized in the West” [David J. Bloesch, "Theological Education Missionary Perspective," Missiology 10 (January 1982): 16-17]. Our credal formulations, structured [...]
I’ve just posted a review of The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age for the Earth by Davis Young and Ralph Stearly.
Read it here
