a time to tear down | A Time to Build Up » science http://peterennsonline.com Dr. Peter Enns on the Bible and Contemporary Christian Faith Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:45:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Science & the Sacred Post: A Different Angle http://peterennsonline.com/2009/12/04/new-science-the-sacred-post-a-different-angle/ http://peterennsonline.com/2009/12/04/new-science-the-sacred-post-a-different-angle/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:51:12 +0000 Pete Enns http://peterennsonline.com/?p=678 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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Science and an Incarnational Approach to the Bible

An Incarnational Model

Mesopotamian Myths and “Genre Calibration”

]]> http://peterennsonline.com/2009/12/02/guest-posts-at-science-and-the-sacred-blog/feed/ 0 New Position: BioLogos Foundation Senior Fellow of Biblical Studies http://peterennsonline.com/2009/12/02/new-position-biologos-foundation-senior-fellow-of-biblical-studies/ http://peterennsonline.com/2009/12/02/new-position-biologos-foundation-senior-fellow-of-biblical-studies/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:08:59 +0000 Pete Enns http://peterennsonline.com/?p=668 biologos_logoOn 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 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.

BioLogos represents the harmony of science and faith. It addresses the central themes of science and religion and emphasizes the compatibility of Christian faith with scientific discoveries about the origins of the universe and life.  To communicate this message to the general public and add to the ongoing dialog, The BioLogos Foundation created BioLogos.org.

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]]> http://peterennsonline.com/2009/12/02/new-position-biologos-foundation-senior-fellow-of-biblical-studies/feed/ 0 Review: Inerrant Wisdom by Paul Seely http://peterennsonline.com/2009/05/04/review-inerrant-wisdom-by-paul-seely/ http://peterennsonline.com/2009/05/04/review-inerrant-wisdom-by-paul-seely/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 04:08:47 +0000 Pete Enns http://peterennsonline.com/?p=414 I’ve just posted a new book review: Inerrant Wisdom: Science and Inerrancy in Biblical Persective

]]> http://peterennsonline.com/2009/05/04/review-inerrant-wisdom-by-paul-seely/feed/ 0 Conn on “the evangelical’s perception of theology as some sort of comprehensively universal science” http://peterennsonline.com/2008/11/26/conn-on-the-evangelicals-perception-of-theology-as-some-sort-of-comprehensively-universal-science/ http://peterennsonline.com/2008/11/26/conn-on-the-evangelicals-perception-of-theology-as-some-sort-of-comprehensively-universal-science/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:20:49 +0000 Pete Enns http://peterennsonline.com/?p=293 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 to respond to a sixteenth-century cultural setting and its problems, lose their historical character as contextual confessions of faith and become cultural universals, having comprehensive validity in all items and settings. The possibility of new doctrinal developments for the Reformed churches of Japan or Mexico is frozen into a time warp that gnosticizes the particularity of time and culture. The Reformation is completed, and we in the West wait for the churches of the Third World to accept as their statements of faith those shaped by a corpus Christianum by a Western church three centuries ago. (EWCW, p.221)

]]> http://peterennsonline.com/2008/11/26/conn-on-the-evangelicals-perception-of-theology-as-some-sort-of-comprehensively-universal-science/feed/ 0 Review of The Bible, Rocks and Time http://peterennsonline.com/2008/10/21/review-of-the-bible-rocks-and-time/ http://peterennsonline.com/2008/10/21/review-of-the-bible-rocks-and-time/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:41:49 +0000 Pete Enns http://peterennsonline.com/?p=230 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

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