Tag: creation
Faithful Extension and the Question of Human Origins
William T. Cavanaugh and Jamie K. A. Smith, eds.: Evolution and the Fall, Eerdmans, 2017. The questions the church confronts most severely at present are questions of human nature, and what to call good and what to reject as broken...
The Worldly Poetry of the Puritans
I’m pleased to have Stephen Wolfe back with us again today for this piece on Puritan poetry. The common understanding of the Puritans, in both popular and academic circles, is that they were hostile to all art, despisers of human...
The Battle for the Bible and a “Literal” Hermeneutic
According to a piece recently published in the Los Angeles Review of Books evangelicals are losing the battle for the Bible—and they’re fine with that. In the review essay, author Jim Hinch quotes several recent books as well as an interview...
Genetically Modified Food: Mark Lynas and Your Inner Luddite
Earlier this month, Mark Lynas, a leading environmental campaigner and erstwhile anti-GM food crusader, delivered a lecture to the Oxford Farming Conference that brazenly combined penitence and pugnacity, offering a public recantation of his own views on GM food while...
The Contest Between Evolution and Christianity is a Duel to the Death
Editor’s note: Peter Blair is editor of Fare Forward, one of the best new sites to hit the interwebs in a while. I’m on record saying that it’s like us at Mere-O, only better. I’m thrilled to steal him away...