Before we discuss the relevance of the Genesis debate and theistic evolution with man made in the image of God, it’s important that we throw on the brakes for a moment to re-orient ourselves in terms of hermeneutics. This really is the issue, after all. No one has struck the balance so nicely as Walter [...]

“If we carefully keep this distinction in mind [the distinction set forth by Catholic theologians] and apply it in our criticism and exegesis of Scripture, it may very well happen that many parts of Scripture, which up until now we had viewed as history, prove upon study not to be history in our sense at [...]

Adam is What? Maybe Israel’s history happened first, and the Adam story was written to reflect that history. In other words, the Adam story is really an Israel story placed in primeval time. It is not a story of human origins but of Israel’s origins. Peter Enns said this about Genesis on March 2 in [...]

Introducing the BioLogos Forum On April 12th, Bruce Waltke submitted his RTS resignation letter to Christianity Today, which contained the following: Holy week and the Monday through Wednesday of this week have been a uniquely hectic experience in my 79 years, to say the least. So hectic, I did not even follow the New York [...]

Today, Neo-Calvinists seem to be infatuated with combining Darwinism/common descent with Christianity. The problem, of course, is that the founders of Neo-Calvinism – Herman Bavinck and Abraham Kuyper, perhaps the two greatest systematic theologians since John Calvin – abhorred the idea of theistic evolution and the idea that human beings descended from animals. Herman Bavinck, [...]

If in the area of history [the apostles and prophets] write ‘in accordance with appearance,’ that certainly has to mean not in accordance with what happened objectively but in accordance with what many in their day believed subjectively. In that case they give us a false impression and are therefore being compromised in their authority [...]

Treading Water: Replacing One Extreme With Another In the last post in this series, we demonstrated how a polemic view of Genesis 1 does not require a denial of its historicity. The creation account in Genesis 1 may have been written in response to other contemporary, Ancient Near East pagan/Egyptian creation myths, but that in [...]