Tag: John Walton
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Reconciliation is not the core mission of the people of God – Redux
Last week I published a post, Reconciliation is not the core task of the people of God. It highlighted an excerpt from Armand Larvie's book After Sunday and stimulated some great discussion. This post is a more detailed presentation of my point of view. Here is my thesis: The primary mission of the people of…
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Reconciliation is not the core task of the people of God
I've recently been reading After Sunday: A Theology of Work by Episcopal priest Armand Larive. I'm presently in Chapter Three, where he identifies how theology has developed in a way that blocks us from seeing the importance of work. He is spelling out what needs to be altered to open space for a theology of…
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Genesis One 1
Jesus Creed: Genesis One 1 We at the Jesus Creed blog, both Scot and RJS, have already invited one and all to enter into a conversation and discussion about John Walton's (professor at Wheaton) new book, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate. Today is our first day. We anticipate…
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“The Lost World of Genesis One” – Book Review
What to make of Genesis 1? I've never considered the chapter a straightforward historical account of creation. To the degree that the passage is about historical events, it had to be an accommodation to a pre-scientific culture … as evidenced by passages like verses 6-8. But maybe the passage … taking into the cultural accommodation…
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Science and Christianity (Part 8)
(Note: Not long after writing this, I rejected Hugh Ross's concordist view on Genesis. His science may be accurate, but John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis 1 provides a more satisfactory analysis of the early Genesis passages. July 6, 2023.) In case you hadn't noticed, there is a difference of opinion on interpreting…