Lawrence Principe on a species of scientific fundamentalism The point is that [John W.] Draper [d. 1882] and [Andrew D.] White [d. 1918] were illegitimately transporting the emerging social stratification of their own era backward into earlier times. By constructing the notion that two rival camps – scientists and religionists – had existed throughout history, […]
Telford Work on science, religion, and facing reality Literalistic creation science must disregard or distort the massive and accumulating credible evidence of humanity’s evolutionary origins and character as well as the signs that the Bible’s creation accounts are not literal chronologies. Intelligent Design theory, already unattractive to scientists as a “science stopper,” cannot match its […]
Mark Seifrid on preaching law and gospel We must avoid the danger of producing by our preaching mere cathartic experiences, which ever only end in the implicit word, “You have been forgiven, go home and feel better.” This preaching finally becomes cheap grace. At the same time we must avoid dispensing mere moral instruction that […]
…the details of Leviticus, taken within the sacrificial movement of Christ, demand that we draw into a direct relationship of responsibility with God the range of elements upon which our love, ordered to God, is to be exercised. These necessarily include prayer, disease, sexual relations, moral usage of money, animals, crops and plantings, the poor, […]
Alan Jacobs in defense of testimony sharing We should never presume that our exercise of memoria is perfect, nor that the patterns it reveals predict our future with perfect accuracy. […] In one of his sermons D. L. Moody proclaimed, You ask me to explain regeneration. I cannot do it. But one thing I know—that […]
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