De titel van deze blogpost is een zeer korte samenvatting van een citaat dat ik vond bij theologie Elisabeth Johnson. Voor alle duidelijkheid: of evolutie je nu wel of niet God laat zien, is een kwestie van geloof. Het is geen suggestie dat evolutie het bestaan van God bewijst. En neen, evolutie bewijst ook niet…
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God ontmoeten in je flow
Over God wordt vaak gesproken als iemand of iets dat naast de natuurlijke wereld staat. Gelovigen gaan dan nadenken over hoe ze zich God moeten voorstellen (want hoe kan God handelen in de natuurlijke wereld als hij er niet toe behoort?, ongelovigen argumenteren dat zoiets niet kan (want er is niets buiten de natuurlijke wereld!)….
Ken Ham Cherry Picking Scripture
When I first read Ken Ham’s take on the Nepal earthquake, I decided to ignore it. I thought nobody would take him serious anyway, at least not in my little, Dutch-speaking part of the world. But then some approving comments on Ham appeared on social media. That made me reconsider my initial choice. The reason is simple….
Swinburne on the Existence of God
I was in fact searching for another paper (“The Informed Universe and the Existence of God” by John Haught, actually a chapter of an edited volume), when I stumbled upon this paper (link to pdf below) by Swinburne. There’s no reference to date or place, unfortunately, but the text offers an interesting read. Although I have some…
Ratzinger Again . . . “The Creation of the Human Being”
Although I agree with the position that belief in creation and evolutionary theory do not exclude each other, and I also agree that the contingency of evolution by natural selection parallels certain aspects of creation belief, I must admit I am a bit reluctant to identify divine action with the process of natural selection as…
“What Is Man That You Are Mindful of Him?” by Jacob Thielman
Good review of an interesting book on theological anthropology, and a touching testimony that shows why the book is relevant to anyone of us.
Science and Religion: Has the Conflict Model Won the Popularity Vote?
– Tom Uytterhoeven – This morning my wife posted a picture on my Facebook wall. It shows two Post It notes on a wall in a community center in a Belgian town. The center had organized a cultural activity for kids: they were invited to write down who their hero was. So one kid posted:…
Keeping God real takes work – Guelph Mercury
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Keeping God real takes work Guelph Mercury Scholars like the anthropologist Pascal Boyer, author of Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origin of Religious Thought, and the psychologist Justin L. Barrett, author of Why Would Anyone Believe in God? Tom Uytterhoeven’s insight: Interesting suggestion at the end of the article: prayer…
Interesting quote from Wolfhart Pannenberg
The fact that the reality and revelation of God are debatable is part of the reality of the world which dogmatics has to consider as God’s world. – Systematic Theology, Volume I, p. 49 Just one of many reasons why a fundamentalist Christianity is a contradictio in terminis…
So is God the same?
I like this blogpost. As I understand it, the author avoids presenting God in a static way, as well as presenting Him as part of an evolving universe: So is God the same?.