Death before the fall : biblical literalism and the problem of animal suffering / Ronald E. Osborn ; foreword by John H. Walton.
Material type: TextPublisher: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 195 pages ; 21 cm PDFContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780830840465 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 083084046X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 231.7/652 23
- BS480 .O845 2014
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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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