My latest gentle and self-effacing article in the Huffington Post is now up. My point is the religion pollsters I mention in this post have some pretty unreflective ideas of what Christians believe. My last post resulted in mass atheist conversions–although I am not sure in which direction.
A pastor friend of mine lent me a book by M. Holmes Hartshorne, The Faith to Doubt (Prentice-Hall, 1963). He and I have been talking and thinking a lot about the reality of doubt in the Christian life and the spiritual role that it plays. Hartshorne was Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Colgate with [...]
Here is this week’s BioLogos post. Doubt is a normal part of the Christian faith. It is expected. But it is more than something we have to put up with. It is a gift from God to move us away from the shallowness of our own conceptions of God to grater depth and intimacy. The [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I continue my responses to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.
I respond to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.
