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Contesting Faith, Truth, And Religious Language At The Creation Museum: A Historical-Theological Reflection, Brent A. R. Hege Aug 2014

Contesting Faith, Truth, And Religious Language At The Creation Museum: A Historical-Theological Reflection, Brent A. R. Hege

Brent A. R. Hege

The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, attempts to demonstrate the flaws in contemporary science and to offer an alternative explanation of human origins and biological complexity rooted in a specific reading of the biblical narrative. This effort, however, is paradoxically rooted in the worldview of modern science and the Enlightenment. This article will examine the Creation Museum’s definitions of faith, truth, and religious language and will compare these definitions to those of mainline Protestant Christianity to uncover the historical and theological presuppositions of Creationist and mainline Protestant engagements with contemporary science.


Images Of The Church In I Corinthians And I Timothy: An Exercise In Canonical Hermeneutics, Eugene E. Lemcio Jul 2014

Images Of The Church In I Corinthians And I Timothy: An Exercise In Canonical Hermeneutics, Eugene E. Lemcio

Eugene E Lemcio

No abstract provided.


Mixed Reviews: On (Not) Using The Stories Of Genesis In Ministry To Children, R. Christopher Heard Jun 2014

Mixed Reviews: On (Not) Using The Stories Of Genesis In Ministry To Children, R. Christopher Heard

Chris Heard

No abstract provided.


The Pauline Model Of Atonement In Romans 3:19-31, Norm Mathers Jan 2014

The Pauline Model Of Atonement In Romans 3:19-31, Norm Mathers

Norm Mathers

The Pauline model of Romans 3:19-31 is a description of substitutionary atonement. Sin, guilt, righteousness, faith in Christ, justification, redemption, propitiation, Christ a covering, atonement in his blood, substitute, justice, justifier, and the principle of faith are descriptive of this view of the atonement. A barrage of literature has arisen against penal substitution. Penal substitution has been confused with substitutionary atonement. Penal substitution has also been referred to as penal substitutionary atonement which isn’t substitutionary atonement. Substitutionary atonement has been clouded by such atonement theories as Christus Victor. Aulen’s view of reconciliation doesn’t adequately describe the New Testament atonement. Substitutionary …


Review Of The Book Of Genesis In Late Antiquity: Encounters Between Jewish And Christian Exegesis, By Emmanouela Grypeou And Helen Spurling, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2013

Review Of The Book Of Genesis In Late Antiquity: Encounters Between Jewish And Christian Exegesis, By Emmanouela Grypeou And Helen Spurling, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


“The Untold History Of Modern Biblical Scholarship’S Pre-Enlightenment Secular Origins.”, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2013

“The Untold History Of Modern Biblical Scholarship’S Pre-Enlightenment Secular Origins.”, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Review Of Charity: The Place Of The Poor In The Biblical Tradition, By Gary A. Anderson, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2013

Review Of Charity: The Place Of The Poor In The Biblical Tradition, By Gary A. Anderson, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


“Études Assyriologie And 19th And 20th Century French Historical-Biblical Criticism.”, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2013

“Études Assyriologie And 19th And 20th Century French Historical-Biblical Criticism.”, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Resurrection Of The Messiah: A Narrative Commentary On The Resurrection Accounts In The Four Gospels, By Francis J. Moloney, Sdb, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2013

Review Of The Resurrection Of The Messiah: A Narrative Commentary On The Resurrection Accounts In The Four Gospels, By Francis J. Moloney, Sdb, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


“Alfred Loisy And Les Mythes Babyloniens: Loisy’S Discourse On Myth In The Context Of Modernism.”, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2013

“Alfred Loisy And Les Mythes Babyloniens: Loisy’S Discourse On Myth In The Context Of Modernism.”, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.