Evolution And Christian Faith

Author : Joan Roughgarden
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597261579

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Evolution and Christian Faith by Joan Roughgarden Pdf

Click here to visit evolutionandchristianfaith.org "I'm an evolutionary biologist and a Christian," states Stanford professor Joan Roughgarden at the outset of her groundbreaking new book, Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist. From that perspective, she offers an elegant, deeply satisfying reconciliation of the theory of evolution and the wisdom of the Bible. Perhaps only someone with Roughgarden's unique academic standing could examine so well controversial issues such as the teaching of intelligent design in public schools, or the potential flaws in Darwin's theory of evolution. Certainly Roughgarden is uniquely suited to reference both the minutiae of scientific processes and the implication of Biblical verses. Whether the topic is mutation rates and lizards or the hidden meanings behind St. Paul's letters, Evolution and Christian Faith distils complex arguments into everyday understanding. Roughgarden has scoured the Bible and scanned the natural world, finding examples time and again, not of conflict, but of harmony. The result is an accessible and intelligent context for a Christian vision of the world that embraces science. In the ongoing debates over creationism and evolution, Evolution and Christian Faith will be seen as a work of major significance, written for contemporary readers who wonder how-or if-they can embrace scientific advances while maintaining their traditional values.

Author : S. Joshua Swamidass
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830865055

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The Genealogical Adam and Eve by S. Joshua Swamidass Pdf

Evolutionary science teaches that humans arose as a population, sharing common ancestors with other animals. Most readers of the book of Genesis in the past understood all humans descended from Adam and Eve, a couple specially created by God. These two teachings seem contradictory, but is that necessarily so? In the fractured conversation of human origins, can new insight guide us to solid ground in both science and theology? In The Genealogical Adam and Eve, S. Joshua Swamidass tests a scientific hypothesis: What if the traditional account is somehow true, with the origins of Adam and Eve taking place alongside evolution? Building on well-established but overlooked science, Swamidass explains how it's possible for Adam and Eve to be rightly identified as the ancestors of everyone. His analysis opens up new possibilities for understanding Adam and Eve, consistent both with current scientific consensus and with traditional readings of Scripture. These new possibilities open a conversation about what it means to be human. In this book, Swamidass untangles several misunderstandings about the words human and ancestry, in both science and theology explains how genetic and genealogical ancestry are different, and how universal genealogical ancestry creates a new opportunity for rapprochement explores implications of genealogical ancestry for the theology of the image of God, the fall, and people "outside the garden" Some think Adam and Eve are a myth. Some think evolution is a myth. Either way, the best available science opens up space to engage larger questions together. In this bold exploration, Swamidass charts a new way forward for peace between mainstream science and the Christian faith.

Author : Thomas R. McFaul,Al Brunsting
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781666702378

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The Evolution of Faith by Thomas R. McFaul,Al Brunsting Pdf

A new understanding is developed in this book about the relationship between the Christian faith, modern science, and the world religions. The authors call their new position Evolutionary Pluralism. By combining the Christian faith with modern science and the global growth of religious diversity, Evolutionary Pluralism provides Christians with an alternative to current interpretations such as Young Earth Creationism, Old Earth Creationism, Intelligent Design Creationism, and Evolutionary Creationism. This new understanding stands solidly within the history and traditions of the Christian faith and builds on the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

Author : Denis O Lamoureux
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718842840

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Evolutionary Creation by Denis O Lamoureux Pdf

In this provocative book, evolutionist and evangelical Christian Denis O. Lamoureux proposes an approach to origins that moves beyond the 'evolution-versus-creation' debate.

Author : Haight SJ, Roger
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608338054

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Faith and Evolution by Haight SJ, Roger Pdf

Author : Kathryn Applegate
Publisher : Monarch Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857217882

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How I Changed My Mind About Evolution by Kathryn Applegate Pdf

Over two dozen Christian leaders describe how they changed their minds about evolution Perhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from the creation the book of Genesis celebrates. Yet many evangelicals have come to accept the conclusions of science while still holding to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith? Here are stories from a community of people who love Jesus and honor the authority of the Bible, but who also agree with what science says about the cosmos, our planet and the life that so abundantly fills it. Among the contributors are Scientists such as: Francis Collins Deborah Haarsma Denis Lamoureux Theologians and philosophers such as: James K. A. Smith Amos Yong Oliver Crisp Biblical scholars such as: N. T. Wright Scot McKnight Tremper Longman III Pastors such as: John Ortberg Ken Fong Laura Truax

Author : Daniel M. Harrell
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780687642359

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Nature's Witness by Daniel M. Harrell Pdf

People of faith insist that God is the God of the world around us. Yet scientific evidence supporting evolution seems to offer an explanation of reality different from the biblical one. In light of this apparent conflict, some choose either to deny the scientific data or separate science and faith from each other, giving the appearance that faith is disconnected from reality. Others accommodate faith to science, but run the risk of watering down faith such that faith "fills in the blanks" left by science. Against these options, Daniel Harrell asserts that the evidence for evolution accurately describes the world we see, but insists that this description does not adequately serve as an explanation for the world. Rather than seeing science and faith as diametrically opposed, Harrell suggests that evolutionary data actually opens the door for deeper theological reflection on God's creation. Writing out of a pastoral concern for those struggling to negotiate faith and evolution, Harrell argues that being reliable witnesses to creation helps people of faith be reliable witnesses to its creator. Whether they are pastors wondering how to talk about these issues with their congregations, or students asking whether their biology classes make their faith irrelevant, Harrell's readers are winsomely led on a journey of exploration in which a robust biblical faith can be held along with affirmation of the scientific data for evolution.

Author : David de Pomerai
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527562738

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Redundant God? Christian Faith in the Light of Evolution by David de Pomerai Pdf

Does evolution make faith superfluous? Part One of this book looks across the whole spectrum of biology—from molecules to ecosystems to human societies—and at the fossil history of life on earth, concluding that evolution is the only explanatory concept that makes sense of it all. Doesn’t this demolish the core Christian claim that God created the entire universe? Part Two explores whether God might instead embrace that universe with love and compassion, without micromanaging or interfering. Jesus bears witness to such a God in his kingdom teaching, calling Christians to follow his example of humility, serving others, and valuing what the world considers unimportant. This suggests paths of repentance and restraint that are urgently needed in a world facing rapid climate change and likely mass extinction.

Author : Bolton Davidheiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Bible and evolution
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019815047

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Evolution and Christian Faith by Bolton Davidheiser Pdf

Author : Philip Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1846256070

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Evolution and the Christian Faith by Philip Bell Pdf

Author : H. H. Lane
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725229938

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Evolution and Christian Faith by H. H. Lane Pdf

Author : Gijsbert Van den Brink
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467458764

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Reformed Theology and Evolutionary Theory by Gijsbert Van den Brink Pdf

Many books aim to help beginners explore whether or not evolutionary science is compatible with Christian faith. This one probes more deeply to ask: What do we learn from modern evolutionary science about key issues that are of special theological concern? And what does Christian theology, especially in its Reformed expressions, say about those same key issues? Gijsbert van den Brink begins by describing the layers of meaning in the phrase “evolutionary theory” and exploring the question of how to interpret the Bible with regard to science. He then works through five key areas of potential conflict between evolutionary theory and Christian faith, spelling out scientific findings and analyzing Christian doctrinal concerns along the way. His conclusion: although some traditional doctrinal interpretations must be adjusted, evolutionary science is no obstacle to classical Christian faith.

Author : Jack Mahoney
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589017993

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Christianity in Evolution by Jack Mahoney Pdf

Evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revolutionary consequences for Christianity. In an evolutionary perspective the incarnation involved God entering the evolving human species to help it imitate the trinitarian altruism in whose image it was created and counter its tendency to self-absorption. Primarily, however, the evolutionary achievement of Jesus was to confront and overcome death in an act of cosmic significance, ushering humanity into the culminating stage of its evolutionary destiny, the full sharing of God’s inner life. Previously such doctrines as original sin, the fall, sacrifice, and atonement stemmed from viewing death as the penalty for sin and are shown not only to have serious difficulties in themselves, but also to emerge from a Jewish culture preoccupied with sin and sacrifice that could not otherwise account for death. The death of Jesus on the cross is now seen as saving humanity, not from sin, but from individual extinction and meaninglessness. Death is now seen as a normal process that affect all living things and the religious doctrines connected with explaining it in humans are no longer required or justified. Similar evolutionary implications are explored affecting other subjects of Christian belief, including the Church, the Eucharist, priesthood, and moral behavior.

Author : Joel W. Martin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801897511

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The Prism and the Rainbow by Joel W. Martin Pdf

God or Darwin? It is one of the most contentious conflicts of our time. It is also completely unnecessary, according to Joel W. Martin, an evolutionary biologist and ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church USA. In this slim but powerful book, Martin argues that it is not contradictory to be a practicing, faithful Christian who accepts the science of evolution. Martin finds that much of the controversy in the United States over evolution is manufactured and predicated on a complete—and sometimes willful—misapprehension of basic science. Science and religion, he says, serve different purposes and each seeks to answer questions that the other need never address. He believes that many of the polarizing debates about evolution distract from the deeper lessons of Christianity and that literal, fundamentalist readings of the Bible require the faithful to reject not just evolution but many of science's greatest discoveries. Just as the scientific explanation of rainbows is not meant to refute the biblical "rainbow" story of God’s promise, evolutionary theory is not a ploy to disavow the divine. Indeed, Martin shows that the majority of Christians worldwide accept the theory of evolution. He urges his fellow Christians to refuse to participate in the intellectually stifling debate over evolution and creationism/intelligent design.

Author : Lyman Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Christianity
ISBN : WISC:89089995187

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The Evolution of Christianity by Lyman Abbott Pdf

Originally delivered as lectures before the Lowell Institute.