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November 2015

November 17, 2015

A World with a Better Name

Those who are images of God are summoned to build a world with a better...

November 10, 2015

The Thrust of the Biblical Plot (RJS)

A while ago I was taken to task in a (late) comment on a post...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

The Nature of Creation (RJS)

There are several new books on my desk, The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible...

October 2014

October 14, 2014

Who Are Man and Woman? (RJS)

The next chapter of Iain Provan's book Seriously Dangerous Religion looks at the nature of...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Not Of This World, But For This World (RJS)

In John 18:36 Jesus responds to Pilate's questioning "are you the king of the Jews?"...

September 16, 2014

The World is Sacred Space (RJS)

In his new book Seriously Dangerous Religion, Iain Provan begins by sketching the vision of the...

September 11, 2014

The Day of the Lord Will Come (RJS)

2 Peter 3 is a well known passage concerning the Day of the Lord. A...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

The Gospel and Global Warming (RJS)

Jonathan Moo and Robert White in Let Creation Rejoice: Biblical Hope and Ecological Crisis turn...

August 12, 2014

Oh The Destruction We Can Wreak (RJS)

Last month I introduced a new book Let Creation Rejoice: Biblical Hope and Ecological Crisis...

July 2014

July 10, 2014

Let Creation Rejoice (RJS)

A couple of months ago I received a copy of the new book Let Creation...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

A New Look at Genesis 1 (RJS)

In the final chapter of his book The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis...

June 03, 2014

Genesis 1-10 as Ideological Critique (RJS)

The fifth chapter of J. Richard Middleton’s book The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Humans Created to Serve the gods? (RJS)

The third chapter of J. Richard Middleton’s book The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in...

May 20, 2014

No Historical Adam? (RJS)

Last week I introduced a new book from the Zondervan Counterpoints series: Four Views on...

May 15, 2014

The Artistry of Creation, Cosmic Temple, and Imago Dei (RJS)

On Tuesday we looked at the first half of chapter two of J. Richard Middleton’s...

May 13, 2014

No Text is an Island (RJS)

Chapter two of J. Richard Middleton’s book The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis...

May 08, 2014

Interpreting the Imago Dei (RJS)

In Genesis 1 we read: Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image,...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Christ Centered Creation! (RJS)

In the previous two posts (here and here) we looked with Ronald Osborn (Death Before...

April 22, 2014

The God of the Whirlwind (RJS)

Ronald Osborn (Death Before the Fall) finds the cosmic theodicy provided by C. S. Lewis...

April 15, 2014

Jesus Ate Fish and Other Thoughts on Death (RJS)

To dig a little deeper into the problem of animal suffering Ronald Osborn (Death Before...

April 08, 2014

And it Was Good … But Red in Tooth and Claw? (RJS)

One of the more common arguments against evolution is the requirement of death before the...

March 2014

March 13, 2014

Unwholesome Complexity (RJS)

What does it mean to take scripture seriously? Is literalism the only faithful approach? The...

March 06, 2014

No Interpretation Needed!? (RJS)

On Sunday Scot put up a short post highlighting a shift at Bryan College tightening...

March 04, 2014

The Spirit of Life (RJS)

The fifth chapter of The Spirit in Creation and New Creation: Science and Theology in...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

The Benefit of a Spirit-Breathed Perspective (RJS)

In the third chapter of The Spirit in Creation and New Creation: Science and Theology...

February 13, 2014

Once Again: Immortality is a Divine Gift! (RJS)

The picture to the right is of a hawk that landed with its fresh caught...

February 11, 2014

It Starts With Genesis (RJS)

The Great Debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye last week was interesting. There is...

February 06, 2014

The Great Debate? Nye vs. Ham (RJS)

Is creation a viable model of origins in today's modern scientific era? As many probably...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Evolution, Death, Adam, Wright (RJS)

Back in July I put up a post Adam, Adam, Adam, Wright that discussed a...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

And Then God Speaks … About Creation (RJS)

The climax of the book of Job comes when Yahweh answers Job, or more accurately...