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All Blog Posts With Tag: creation
Wolfhart Pannenberg on Death Before the Fall of Humanity (September 7, 2017)
Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014) argued that there was death before the Fall of humanity described in the Creation Stories (Gen 1-3). Pannenberg's explanation of death in prehuman history enables us to better understand the Doctrine of Creation, and how evolutionary sciences may be interpreted in respect to it, and how to […]
Related: creation, Death, death before the fall, evil, Evolution, Fall, sin, suffering, systematic theology, Wolfhart Pannenberg
Bonhoeffer and BioLogos (May 31, 2016)
Read my article on Dietrich Bonhoeffer says Yes to Christianity and Modern Science now!
The PostBarthian is featured at BioLogos! (April 11, 2016)
The PostBarthian is now featured at BioLogos! Click here to read my current article at BioLogos: Karl Barth says Yes to Creation and Evolution. Don't miss it! And, be sure to read the comments.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Days of Creation (June 30, 2014)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Creation and Fall; Temptation: Two Biblical Studies is short and refreshing commentary on Genesis 1-3. Karl Barth's majestic commentary on these same chapters in the Church Dogmatics III/1 was a complete paradigm shift for how I understood the Doctrine of Creation. However, Barth is far too technical for my friends and […]
~ Updated and Revised: March 8th, 2019 ~
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851—1921) was a professor of theology at Princeton Theological Seminary (and successor of Charles Hodge and his son A. A. Hodge), and B. B. Warfield is among the greatest and most influential Reformed theologians in American history. B. B. Warfield […]
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 […]
Emil Brunner and Alister McGrath on the Doctrine of Creation (January 22, 2014)
Should Genesis 1-2 be used to define our Doctrine of Creation? Alister E. McGrath's excellent three volume study on the relationship between Theology and Natural Science contained an excellent quote demonstrating that beginning with the first two chapters of the Bible, due to it's prime real estate location in the […]
Abraham Kuyper and Karl Barth on Creation as Revelation (June 10, 2013)
In Judeo-Christian history of thought, there's always been core belief that God is creator, and that the world has not always existed but was creation by God in the beginning. (Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen […]