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Perspectives
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I Don’t Believe in Evolution
FREDERICK J. GAISER
(see full text of essay under “Editorial”)
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The claim that Gen 1
is to be read literalistically is as much a product
of rationalist biblical studies (perhaps, even more so) as the observation
that it is ancient myth. The question is not which of these positions is “inspired”
or more “faithful,” but which is a better reading of the
material.
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Fear, Hate, John’s First Letter, and the Task of
Ministry
ROLAND MILLER
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Arguably, you cannot share the gospel with someone you hate. Fear and
hate foreclose God’s mission. So it is always the right time for some of St. John’s little
one-syllable words.
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Articles
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Genesis after the Origin:
Theological Responses to Evolution
S. BRIAN
STRATTON
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Darwin’s theory of evolution has been met with three responses from a
theological perspective: outright rejection, enthusiastic embrace, and the
argument that the two are irrelevant to one another. Each has its
contemporary adherents.
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Charles Darwin: Friend or Foe?
FRANCISCO J.
AYALA
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Far from being theology’s foe, natural selection
becomes its friend by removing from the shoulders of believers the burden
imposed by the notion that the design of organisms, including their flaws and
failures, with all the concomitant pain and suffering, must be attributed to
the immediate agency of the Creator.
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Our Creaturely Adventure: Post-Darwinian Directions for
Christian Anthropology
PAUL R. SPONHEIM
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Thinking of Christian anthropology in our
post-Darwinian time will remind us that we belong with the creatures. We live
in a place that has a story, one that contains crisis; yet, with the
creation, we are being taken beyond ourselves to a place of surprise.
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Reading the Bible after Darwin
MARK A.
THRONTVEIT and ALAN G. PADGETT
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The historical and scientific accuracy of the biblical
witness has become increasingly difficult to maintain in light of the
Darwinian revolution. A positive result has been a return to a proper
theological reading of Scripture, not as our primary source of technical
information but of insight into God’s means of dealing with us and God’s
creation.
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All God’s Critters: A Feminist Reflection on Darwin
and Species
ANN M. PEDERSON
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Both evolutionary theory and feminist thought have made clear that
humans can no longer understand themselves as the center of the universe.
This will have striking implications not only for our relationship with other
humans but with all God’s creatures.
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What Are We Telling the Kids? Teaching Genesis to
Teenagers
PAUL E. NYNAS
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We cannot pass on
the faith to the next generation without dealing honestly and authentically
with their real questions—including questions about the relation between
faith and science, Genesis and Darwin. Risks are involved, but not to engage
such matters is the greater risk.
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On Primal Fear and Confidence: Reinterpreting the
Myth of the Flood as the Climate Changes
STEWART W. HERMAN
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Myths work to evoke
appropriate fear and then to break through a crust of ignorance to reorient
listeners to deeper truths. The biblical flood story did this in the face of
the “wickedness” and “violence” of its own day, and it can do so again in the
face of the wickedness and violence of our pollution of the earth.
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Resources
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Texts in
Context: Preaching Creation: Genesis 1–2
TERENCE E. FRETHEIM
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The lectionary provides the preacher several opportunities to address
issues related to creation from the pulpit, and the times suggest a clear
need for this. The biblical resources are many—and what the Bible actually
says about Creator and creation may surprise both preacher and congregation.
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Face to
Face: Two Biologists on Church and Faith
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A Problem of Language and Knowing
DON ALSTAD
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A Call for Building Partnerships
EVELYN E.
GAISER
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Reviews
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Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical
Hermeneutics, by Jeannine
K. Brown
DEAN
M. ERICKSON
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Divine Teaching: An
Introduction to Christian Theology, by Mark A. McIntosh
TIMOTHY J. YODER
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Preaching and
Theology, by James F. Kay
JUSTIN C. BOEDING
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The History of
Christianity in the United
States, by Nancy Koester
SARAH E. JOHNSON
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Imaging the
Journey... of Contemplation, Meditation, Reflection, and Adventure, by
Mark C. Mattes and Ronald R. Darge
ROBERT BRUSIC
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Whitewashing Uncle
Tom’s Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe, by Joy
Jordan-Lake
NANCY KOESTER
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