Monthly Archives: June 2014

Is There Room in the Middle?

Posted on June 26, 2014 by rjs5

Karl Giberson has an interesting article at The Daily Beast – What’s Driving America’s Evolution Divide?. A recent Gallup Poll reported a consistent increase in the number of people who hold that humans evolved, but God had no part in … Continue reading →

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A New Look at Genesis 1

Posted on June 24, 2014 by rjs5

In the final chapter of his book The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 J. Richard Middleton suggests a new interpretive framework for Genesis 1. This is not new as in totally innovative, or dismissing tradition altogether, but … Continue reading →

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In the Image of a Violent God?

Posted on June 19, 2014 by rjs5

Chapter 6 of J. Richard Middleton’s book The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 addresses the question of the nature of God revealed in creation. Most of the Mesopotamian creation myths involve creation as part of some great … Continue reading →

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Responses to Archetypal Adam

Posted on June 17, 2014 by rjs5

In the last post on the new book in the Zondervan Counterpoints series: Four Views on the Historical Adam we looked at John Walton’s view of Adam as Both Archetypal and Historical (the original post is found at the link). … Continue reading →

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We Are Wired To Be Social

Posted on June 12, 2014 by rjs5

Many years ago I was with my then three-year-old daughter at a playground. We were hanging out and playing on the equipment (a far more elaborate set-up than the one shown to the right). Another parent showed up with two … Continue reading →

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Babel as Ideological Critique

Posted on June 10, 2014 by rjs5

The previous post on J. Richard Middleton’s book The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 looked at the way in which Middleton sees Genesis 1-10 as an ideological critique of the dominant and dominating Mesopotamian culture. The creation … Continue reading →

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Adam Both Archetypal and Historical

Posted on June 5, 2014 by rjs5

The second section of the new book from the Zondervan Counterpoints series: Four Views on the Historical Adam looks at John Walton’s view of Adam. Walton presents an archetypal view of Adam derived from Scripture and consistent with a number … Continue reading →

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Genesis 1-10 as Ideological Critique

Posted on June 3, 2014 by rjs5

The fifth chapter of J. Richard Middleton’s book The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 considers the ways in which Genesis 1-11 critiques the Mesopotamian ideology. This chapter is worth a couple of posts – the first will … Continue reading →

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