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 Problem of the Old Testament, which looks at three questions raised by biblical scholars that seem to threaten traditional views of Scripture. Enns has also been a contributor to our blog Science & the Sacred. His full biography can be found under “Team Members” in our “About Us” section.

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“Seeing the NT as Christian Talmud: Toward Understanding the Nature of Christian Scripture” – at EBC, October 24, 10-12 noon

“It Was a Rough Century: Challenges to Conventional Notions of the Bible from the 1800s until Today” – at U.Vic., October 25, 7 p.m.

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A weekend seminar with DR. TREMPER LONGMAN III & DR. PETER  ENNS

• “How can we think of ancient mythology as the word of God?”
• “Isn’t the God of the Old Testament nasty & vengeful? He’s not like Jesus at all!”
• “The Old Testament simply can’t be trusted.”
• “Modern science has made the biblical creation stories hopelessly out-of-date.”
• “How can Christians make sense out of the Old Testament?”

Most of us have heard or said something along these lines. In this weekend seminar, Professors Tremper Longman and Peter Enns, two highly respected Old Testament scholars, will speak to some of the issues that surround reading the Hebrew Scriptures.

Designed for curious skeptics and for committed followers of Jesus—and everyone in between—this seminar is designed to give an honest and faithful look at the “problems” of the Old Testament.

Friday, October 9, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Saturday, October 10, 9:00 am – 12 noon
Rye Free Reading Room
1061 Boston Post Road
on the village green in Rye, NY
Admission is free

Professor Tremper Longman III (BA, Ohio Wesleyan; MDiv, Westminster Seminary; PhD, Yale) is the Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA, and the author of over twenty books, including How to Read Genesis (InterVarsity) and Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation (Zondervan).

Professor Peter Enns (BA, Messiah; MDiv, Westminster; PhD, Harvard) is an in-demand scholar, writer, and speaker, who has taught for 20 years at both the graduate & undergraduate levels. His 2005 work, Inspiration & Incarnation (Baker Academic), was written to help those struggling with questions such as these.

Sponsored by TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Rye NY
For more information, contact Trinity Church at 914.967.6247 or administrator@trinitychurch.cc. Office: 15 Elm Place, Rye, NY 10580.

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Lectures sponsored by The Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science

Featured speaker: Dr. Robert J. Russell, Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science in Residence at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences

These lectures explore a variety of topics on the frontiers of the creative mutual interaction between Christian theology and the natural sciences, from a theology of creation as it interacts with both scientific cosmology and evolutionary biology to a theology of the new creation based on the bodily resurrection of Jesus and the challenge to it raised by scientific cosmology. Three lectures, with questions from the audience:

10:00 am.  Cosmology, philosophy and theology: A complex interaction.

1:00 pm.  Theistic evolution and the challenge of natural evil.

3:00 pm.  Resurrection, eschatology and cosmology: guidelines for their creative mutual interaction.

Cost: Free for students & employees of Messiah College and members of the Forum, but tickets are required.  All others pay $25 before November 1 or $35 at the door.  Tickets go on sale in early September; contact the ticket office at 717-691-6036.

For more details, click here (Messiah College web site)

The Act 3 Biblical Forum presents “Reading the Old Testament as Jesus Did” with Dr. Peter Enns, October 30-31, 2009, at the Holiday Inn, Carol Stream, IL.

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The event is sponsored by the Student Activities Board.

Previous to its release each author only saw his own essay, the other two essays, and his own responses. This is the first look we have had at how the other two scholars responded to our own essay.

Thus far, I have only been able to skim the book, but it is clear (not surprisingly) that there are some pretty sharp differences of opinion expressed. I think for this reason interested readers will find it a worthwhile volume for engaging this central hermeneutical issue. I know I have already appreciated the exchange.

A session will be devoted to this book at the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society this year in Providence, RI. All three authors will present their views. The session will be held on Wednesday, November 19, from 2:55 – 5:00.