Helmut Gollwitzer on the Tower of Babel: How to Preach the Old Testament by Example (April 11, 2019)

The Way to Life: Sermons in a Time of World Crisis is a collection of sermons by Helmut Gollwitzer (an assistant of Karl Barth), and one of which is an excellent exposition of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) that exemplifies how to preach etiological saga in the Old Testament […]

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John Calvin on Genesis 1 as an Accommodation to the Ordinary Custom of Men (January 27, 2014)

How are we to understand the two famous Creation narratives in Genesis 1-2, considering the scientific knowledge we have of the cosmos today? If we were to read Genesis 1-2 as a straightforward scientific account, we'd come to conclude that the Sun is the greatest luminary in the cosmos, and […]

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