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Death before the fall : biblical literalism and the problem of animal suffering / Ronald E. Osborn ; foreword by John H. Walton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 195 pages ; 21 cm PDFContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780830840465 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 083084046X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 231.7/652 23
LOC classification:
  • BS480 .O845 2014
Contents:
The creation: a plain reading -- What's eating biblical literalists?: creationism and the enlightenment project -- Unwholesome complexity: literalism as scientism's pale mimetic rival -- Progressive versus degenerating science: weighing incommensurable paradigms -- Does your god need stage props?: On the theological necessity of methodological atheism -- The enclave mentality: identity foreclosure and the fundamentalist mind -- The gnostic syndrome: when literalism becomes a heresy -- Four witnesses on the literal meaning of Genesis: Barth, Calvin, Augustine and Maimonides -- If not foundationalism, what then?: from tower building to net mending -- Stasis, deception, curse: three literalist dilemmas -- A midrash: C. S. Lewis's cosmic conflict theodicy revisited -- God of the whirlwind: animal ferocity in the Book of Job -- Creation & kenosis: evolution and Christ's self-emptying way of the cross -- Animal ethics, Sabbath rest.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.

The creation: a plain reading -- What's eating biblical literalists?: creationism and the enlightenment project -- Unwholesome complexity: literalism as scientism's pale mimetic rival -- Progressive versus degenerating science: weighing incommensurable paradigms -- Does your god need stage props?: On the theological necessity of methodological atheism -- The enclave mentality: identity foreclosure and the fundamentalist mind -- The gnostic syndrome: when literalism becomes a heresy -- Four witnesses on the literal meaning of Genesis: Barth, Calvin, Augustine and Maimonides -- If not foundationalism, what then?: from tower building to net mending -- Stasis, deception, curse: three literalist dilemmas -- A midrash: C. S. Lewis's cosmic conflict theodicy revisited -- God of the whirlwind: animal ferocity in the Book of Job -- Creation & kenosis: evolution and Christ's self-emptying way of the cross -- Animal ethics, Sabbath rest.

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