http://biologos.org/resources/find/Essay/any/Christ & New Creation,BioLogos,Ancient Cultures/sort-by-Newest?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication This is a custom feed of BioLogos resources. Make a new feed at http://biologos.org/resources/find en Copyright 2013 2013-05-19T06:30:00-08:00 http://biologos.org/essays/from-intelligent-design-to-biologos?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/from-intelligent-design-to-biologos?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication In this paper, Venema tells the story of his transition from support of Intelligent Design to the view that God uses evolution as a creative mechanism. Wed, 19 Oct 11 14:17:25 -0700 Dennis Venema http://biologos.org/essays/the-collapsing-universe-in-the-bible?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/the-collapsing-universe-in-the-bible?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication In this essay, Godawa argues that the decreation language of a collapsing universe with falling stars and signs in the heavens was actually symbolic discourse about world-changing events and powers related to the end of the old covenant and the coming of the new covenant as God’s “new world order.” In this interpretation, predictions of the collapsing universe were figuratively fulfilled in the historic past of the first century. Wed, 19 Oct 11 12:25:42 -0700 Brian Godawa http://biologos.org/essays/barriers-to-accepting-creation-by-an-evolutionary-process-I?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/barriers-to-accepting-creation-by-an-evolutionary-process-I?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Renowned Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke considers eleven barriers that prevent evangelical theologians from accepting evolution as a possible means of creation and what these barriers tell us about the tensions perceived by many Evangelicals between science and faith. Waltke's work was based on a survey sent to members of the Fellowship of Evangelical Seminary Presidents and their faculty. Mon, 02 May 11 19:04:27 -0700 Bruce Waltke http://biologos.org/essays/how-does-the-biologos-model-need-to-address-concerns-about-science?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/how-does-the-biologos-model-need-to-address-concerns-about-science?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Many barriers to the acceptance of the BioLogos model by evangelical Christians arise from popular misconceptions about the nature of science and its relationship to God's action in our world. Mon, 02 May 11 18:42:01 -0700 Ard Louis http://biologos.org/essays/evolutionary-creation-a-christian-approach-to-evolution?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/evolutionary-creation-a-christian-approach-to-evolution?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Professor Denis Lamoureux presents the theory of evolutionary creation, which claims that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit created the universe and life through an ordained, sustained, and design-reflecting evolutionary process. The view of origins, says Lamoureux, fully embraces both the religious beliefs of biblical Christianity and the scientific theories of cosmological, geological, and biological evolution. Mon, 25 Apr 11 18:35:05 -0700 Denis Lamoureux http://biologos.org/essays/the-biblical-creation-in-its-ancient-near-eastern-context?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/the-biblical-creation-in-its-ancient-near-eastern-context?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication "As a Christian and a biblical scholar, I care both about Scripture as truth and about the ongoing scholarly conversation regarding the composition of the Hebrew Scriptures. And so, when I was asked to speak on the story of creation in Genesis 1, I welcomed the opportunity to give my thoughts on the interaction between this text and its ancient Near Eastern context." Mon, 25 Apr 11 18:33:35 -0700 Joseph Lam http://biologos.org/essays/mesopotamian-cosmic-geography-in-the-bible?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/mesopotamian-cosmic-geography-in-the-bible?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Brian Godawa looks at several aspects of ancient cosmography (descriptions of the universe) that also appear in the Bible, and what these aspects of the text mean for our understanding of Scripture. Mon, 25 Apr 11 17:55:57 -0700 Brian Godawa http://biologos.org/essays/biblical-creation-and-storytelling-cosmogony-combat-and-covenant?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/biblical-creation-and-storytelling-cosmogony-combat-and-covenant?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication The literary conventions employed in Genesis chapter 1 mark it out, not as a scientific document describing material origins, but as a theological polemic against surrounding ancient Near Eastern pagan religions. Creation language here and elsewhere in Scripture is not about establishing scientific origins of material substance and structure but about covenantal establishment and worldview. Mon, 25 Apr 11 17:53:38 -0700 Brian Godawa http://biologos.org/essays/how-does-a-biologos-model-need-to-address-the-theological-issues?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication http://biologos.org/essays/how-does-a-biologos-model-need-to-address-the-theological-issues?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication Science and Religion scholar Denis Alexander presents two models for relating Adam and Eve with the findings of contemporary anthropology. This essay was presented at the November 2010 Theology of Celebration Workshop Fri, 22 Apr 11 17:13:49 -0700 Denis Alexander