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Did animals have predatory natures before the fall? Did God punish innocent animals with a curse because of human sin? Is it possible for theistic evolution to be compatible with the Bible, even though animal death before the fall would contradict the teaching that death began after the first sin?
In this eloquent and provocative ‘open letter’ to evangelicals, Ronald Osborn wrestles with these pointed questions and with the problem of biblical literalism and animal suffering within an evolutionary understanding of the world.
Considering the topic of animal suffering and predation as a theodicy dilemma, Osborn offers an open-minded exploration of the subject, specifically coming against the fundamentalist and literalist view of the book of Genesis and the creation account. He challenges one-dimensional reading of Scripture and shines a sobering light on the evangelical dogma responsible for advancing viewpoints long ago dismantled by science.
Always acknowledging the traditionalist viewpoint, Osborn demonstrates with a wealth of exegetical and theological insight how orthodox Christianity can embrace evolutionary concepts without contradiction. Osborn forces us to ask hard questions, not only of the Bible and church tradition, but also and especially of ourselves.
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Foreword by John H. Walton
Introduction
Part One: On Literalism
Chapter One: The Creation: A Plain Reading
Chapter Two: What?s Eating Biblical Literalists?: Creationism the Enlightenment Project
Chapter Three: Unwholesome Complexity: Literalism as Scientism?s Pale Mimetic Rival
Chapter Four: Progressive vs. Degenerating Science: Weighing Incommensurable Paradigms
Chapter Five: Does Your God Need Stage Props?: On the Theological Necessity of Methodological Atheism
Chapter Six: The Enclave Mentality: Identity Foreclosure the Fundamentalist Mind
Chapter Seven: The Gnostic Syndrome: When Literalism Becomes a Heresy
Chapter Eight: Four Witnesses Barth, Calvin, Augustine, Maimonides on the Literal Meaning of Genesis
Chapter Nine: If Not Foundationalism, What Then?: From Tower-Building to Net-Mending
Part Two: On Animal Suffering
Epigraph Two: In Praise of Self-Deprecation
Chapter Ten: Stasis, Deception, Curse: Three Literalist Dilemmas
Chapter Eleven: A Midrash: C. S. Lewis?s Cosmic Conflict Theodicy Revisited
Chapter Twelve: God of the Whirlwind: Animal Ferocity in the Book of Job
Chapter Thirteen: Creation Kenosis: Evolution and Christ?s Self Emptying Way of the Cross
Chapter Fourteen: Animal Ethics, Sabbath Rest
Conclusion
Notes
Subject and Author Index
Despre autor
John H. Walton is professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. He has written many books on the Old Testament and its ancient Near Eastern background, including a commentary on Genesis, Ancient Israelite Literature in Its Cultural Context and (as coauthor) The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament.
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