July 19, 2016 The Bible has a lot to say about the natural world, but what does it say? I’m not asking, “Which words does it use and which sentences does it contain?” but instead “When the Bible talks about the natural world, what is the nature of its discourse?” As I discussed in a … More Galileo and the Two Books: The Bible and Scientific Knowledge
July 1, 2016 In my journal entry of June 28, I discussed Galileo’s notion of the two books, viz., the Bible and the book of Nature. Galileo’s goal was to prevent theological and ecclesiastical inference in scientific research. Pictured: Scientists at work, happily free from ecclesiastical interference To achieve his goal, Galileo limited the … More Galileo: The Man Who Made the Bible Safe for Science (continued)
June 28, 2016 Back at work after a hiatus occupied with grading and other necessary tasks. In March I gave a short presentation at the Wesleyan Philosophical Society. In it I talked about the way in which my church (the Church of the Nazarene) and many other Christians have enthusiastically embraced a view of the … More Galileo–The Man who Made The Bible Safe for Science
Historical narration serves truth. … More Narrative and truth
So far, my posts in this journal have been fairly abstract, dealing with the question of whether or not we should think of God’s revelation in terms of the transmission of facts, data, information. In the last hundred or so years, militant Fundamentalism has said Yes with a very loud voice. The result has been … More Of Genocide, Joshua, and the Jewish Community after the Exile
the word of God is another name for God’s acting. . . . It is the expression and means of God’s creative power … More Revelation, Information, and Action
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