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The Lost World of Genesis One - John H. Walton

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Jacob: Contradictions in the Gospels: Problems or Opportunities?: Bart Ehrman has written another book.  It’s called, Jesus Interrupted.  You can read a short article about Ehrman and the new book, an excerpt of the book, and listen to the NPR story... (16/03/2010 - 01:13 | 3 comments | 0 stars)
peter wilkinson: The Lost World of Genesis One - John H. Walton: As promised to John Doyle, who recommended the book to me without having read it himself, here is a review of ‘The Lost World of Genesis One’ by John. H. Walton. It does not have much to... (08/03/2010 - 14:41 | 15 comments | 0 stars)
Tim: A non-believer's lament...: ALL: My easy-believing, non-critical thinking, funamentalist southern baptist bride of 20 years :-), the absolute love of my life, has, in the last few years, undergone a radical spiritual... (05/03/2010 - 17:21 | 17 comments | 0 stars)
rodgertutt: WHAT I WISH I HAD KNOWN DURING MY YOUTH: WHAT I WISH I HAD KNOWN DURING MY YOUTH  How I recovered from a 12 year nervous breakdown (1966-78)  I’m 71 years old  My name is Rodger Tutt. I am 71 years old. I could... (04/03/2010 - 15:38 | 0 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: Homosexuality: Three Christian Views: I reprinted this because I really, really liked it. Homosexuality: Three Christian Views from *Experimental Theology* by Richard Beck In recent reading about... (24/02/2010 - 02:22 | 0 comments | 5 stars)
peter wilkinson: Virtue Reborn – Tom Wright: If ever there was a book whose time has come, this is it. Drawn against the backdrop of the banking crisis and the U.K. M.P.’s expenses scandal, the prodigious pen of Tom Wright presents a... (23/02/2010 - 16:48 | 10 comments | 2.3 stars)
john doyle: Day One: A Sir Toby's Creation Myth: As an experiment, I present for your consideration not a written text but an oral reading. I tried embedding this video in the post, but either I lack the skill or OST will not accept the Youtube... (17/02/2010 - 05:39 | 15 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith: I recently watched a short web-interview with Richard Dawkins on the Washington Post website.  The piece was entitled: “Divine Impulses: Richard Dawkins on “the arrogance of... (06/02/2010 - 01:49 | 59 comments | 3.5 stars)
Jacob: Who Counts as Christian?: Over at Rod Dreher’s Beliefnet.com blog, he’s wondering were the line between Christian and non-Christian sits [http://blog.beliefnet.com/roddreher/2010/01/atheist-pwns-liberal-christian.... (28/01/2010 - 01:10 | 5 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: A Relational Christianity:   A while back I read Frank Viola and George Barna’s controversial-in-Christian-circles book, Pagan Christianity?  I thoroughly enjoyed the text.  Why?  Because the authors... (27/01/2010 - 04:37 | 0 comments | 5 stars)
gmanon: Too much theology: Since Philosophy was introduced into Christianity, religious keep diversifying the point of the word of God to justify their lack of faith. The words of Jesus are simple, just hard to ... (25/01/2010 - 22:16 | 0 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: The Bible as a Resource for Faithful Action in the World Today:   In what I thought was an excellent Opinionator piece in the NY Times, Stanley Fish asks: “Must there be a bottom line?”  He reviews Barbara Herrnstein Smith’s new book,... (25/01/2010 - 03:33 | 0 comments | 3 stars)
Jacob: The Irony of Christian Syncretism: Many Christians argue that syncretism is a problem for believers today.  Blending Christian and non-Christian practices is a bad move.  For instance, Denny Burk recently argued that... (15/01/2010 - 19:08 | 3 comments | 3 stars)
hilary: The Voice- an emergent Bible translation?: “The Voice”, a new translation of the New Testament, was published in 2008, but I only recently became aware of it through some scathing reviews such as this from Chris Rosebrough at... (03/01/2010 - 15:56 | 8 comments | 0 stars)
peter wilkinson: Revelation Recontextualised: Not just because I get quoted on Dave Wainscott’s blog (Gustavo Martin pointed it out to me - in connection with his article on Register Analysis in Mark 13 ), but because there is... (29/12/2009 - 15:05 | 2 comments | 0 stars)
peter wilkinson: Mark 13 and Register Analysis: Frequenters of OST who follow the debates surrounding Andrew’s radical re-reading of the gospels according to a historical narrative interpretation, and the focus on the Olivet discourse... (18/12/2009 - 15:42 | 6 comments | 5 stars)
Jacob: One important reason that objective monotheism is a bad idea; or, How to respond to a philosophical realist/atheist in the blogosphere: Ed Yong at the blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, discusses a recent study: For many religious people, the popular question “What would Jesus do?” is essentially the same as “... (02/12/2009 - 05:24 | 2 comments | 4 stars)
rodgertutt: IF YOU CANNOT LOVE AN ETERNAL-TORMENT GOD: If you cannot love an eternal torment god   For the first 500 years after Christ, universalism was the prevailing doctrine believed and taught by the Christian church. These online... (20/11/2009 - 16:01 | 0 comments | 3 stars)
peter wilkinson: Surprised by Tom Wright - a review of Surprised by Hope: Knowing I would have a few hours to spare here and there on a recent visit to Rovaniemi, just outside the Finnish Arctic Circle (setting of the Sauna episodes in The Demise of Sir Toby’s), I... (16/11/2009 - 21:19 | 0 comments | 3 stars)
Andrew: Comment spam: For some reason Open Source Theology has recently been subjected to sustained attacks of comment spam. For the time being I have stopped the automatic posting of comments to the site. I will try to... (04/11/2009 - 23:43 | 0 comments | 0 stars)
Jacob: What does gleaning mean in our present context?: A few weeks ago I was in Philadelphia’s Penn (train) Station. It was late and I was hungry, so I went into the only available store: Dunkin’ Doughnuts. The store was about to close and I... (24/10/2009 - 17:17 | 0 comments | 2.6 stars)
James Walden: The World's Wisdom and God's Folly: A Gospel of Deconstruction: In 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5, Paul makes the case against his critics in Corinth (as well as his “fans,” who have too closely attached themselves to his ministry, 1:12-16) for preaching an... (20/10/2009 - 22:41 | 30 comments | 5 stars)
Jacob: On the Historical Origins of Intelligent Design: Over at the Thinking Christian, Tom Gilson, a proponent of intelligent design, asks: “Who Defines ID?” My goal in this essay is not to define ID, but to inquire into its origins. For Tom... (17/10/2009 - 04:27 | 0 comments | 5 stars)
hilary: "Bind us together Lord"- is Christianity corporate or individual?: Michael Thompson writes in his booklet “The New Perspective on Paul” that ‘authentic Christianity is fundamentally corporate’.  This emphasis on relationships and... (15/10/2009 - 17:37 | 25 comments | 4 stars)
peter wilkinson: A Generous Orthdoxy - Brian McLaren: I’ve only just got round to reading ‘A Generous Orthodoxy’, which makes this review at least three years late, and possibly more: McLaren’s material was made copyright in 2004... (08/10/2009 - 14:07 | 3 comments | 2.5 stars)
Jacob: The Nuclear Sword Is Not In Vain; or, How Some Conflate Their American National Identity With Their Commitment to Christ: Whatever direction(s) the emerging church is emerging, I pray to the God of Israel that it does not involve traveling this path toward these conclusions based on this kind of Christo-Americanist... (07/10/2009 - 04:58 | 1 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: The future of the New Testament and the Sibylline Oracles: My argument in both The Coming of the Son of Man and Re: Mission is that New Testament eschatology – that is, the interest that the New Testament has in future events – can for the most... (11/09/2009 - 10:02 | 3 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Postmodern Apologetics in a Post-Postmodern Time?: Mike Morrell asks whether we can get beyond postmodern disdain towards apologetics and come up with a post-postmodern apologetics. (10/09/2009 - 20:01 | 0 comments | 0 stars)
Andrew: Emergent Theology - It's Not All Bad By Any Means: John Smithson comments at some length on my 15 point definition of emerging theology (What (again) is an emerging theology?). (04/09/2009 - 10:13 | 0 comments | 0 stars)
Duncan: The Antichrist Revealed: The Connections Between the Individual Beast of Revelation and the Little Horn of Daniel 7: I have been working on a book for the last ten years entitled The Antichrist and the Second Coming. After a decade of work, the book became so long (about 1,000 pages) I am making it into two volumes... (03/09/2009 - 01:05 | 1 comments | 0 stars)