Sentences with phrase «between biblical creation»
From him, as from Father, I heard nothing, so far as I recall, about a conflict between biblical creation and Darwinian evolution.
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The purpose of the volume, according Harold Attridge, is to explore «the ongoing controversy in the United States about the relationship between science and religion, particularly evolutionary biology and traditional readings of the biblical creation story.»
We have already noted the conflict which runs through most of Christian thought between the biblical vision of God as the creative and redemptive actor in the history of his creation, and the metaphysical doctrine inherited from the synthesis of the Christian faith with neo-platonic philosophy which conceives God as the impassible, non-temporal absolute.
That possibility seems to be ruled out for the theist, whose view of the relation between God and creation has been molded by the general biblical understanding of things.
The third section, fifty percent longer than the first two together, considers several theological and philosophical questions raised by the relation between sacred theology and contemporary evolutionary theory, They include the distinction between spirit and matter, the unity of spirit and matter, the concepts of becoming, of cause and of operation, the creation of the spiritual soul, the insights of Aristotelian scholasticism, and the biblical narrative of man's origin as it relates to the theory of evolution.
The difference between the Biblical and non-Biblical conceptions of myth is indeed implicitly recognized by HBK, for it quotes Alfred Jeremias's definition of Biblical myth: «Myth in the narrower sense... is one of the supreme creations of the human spirit.
(b) Secondly, such a dualism splits the biblical word off from creation and would substitute the principle of discontinuity for the organic continuity of meaning which exists between the Old and New Testaments.
My initial foray in Part One is into the biblical witness to One characterized very explicitly as a «living» God, tracing the dynamic interrelationship between God and God's creation, God's people, through the Old Testament into the New.
Students thoroughly enjoy this documentary as it is engaging and promotes good debate between literal and liberal interpretations of Biblical accounts of creation.
About Blog BioLogos invites the church and the world to see harmony between science and biblical faith as we present an evolutionary understanding of God's creation.