I wrote a post for Christ and Culture, the blog site for the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture. It begins as follows: “Regardless of how deeply a Christian might or might not feel invested in the political process, Scripture is very clear that the upcoming election should, at least, be a matter of prayer for every believer….
It has been five years since we posted on theologyforthechurch.com. First, the site was taken down by an unknown malicious actor and it took time to put the pieces back together. Then life got a bit cray-cray, what with Covid and book deadlines and such. Something had to be set aside for a bit and this was that. Though we are…
Guy Davies, in a recent article in Spectator, compares the two great dsytopian books of the 20th century–George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. He makes the convincing case that though most people are more familiar with Orwell’s work than Huxley’s, it is Huxley’s nightmare that has turned out to be the most prophetic. I would nuance his argument to say…
The start of the 2018-19 school year marks the 20th anniversary for me as a theology professor. Prior to teaching I had served for 15 years as a pastor. In the last couple of posts Penny and I have reminisced about some of the changes that move has meant for us. In this post I want to briefly discuss what…
In August 1998 I arrived at Kansas City, MO with my family in tow. Mark DeVine, who at that time taught theology at Midwestern Seminary, was leaving to teach at a school in Southeast Asia. I was tapped to fill in for him. (Mark presently teaches at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, AL.) My first day on campus was also…
Previous posts summarized Whitcomb and Morris’ classic Global Flood Model and Snelling’s modern update. (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) This post covers critiques of these models given by other Christian geologists, particularly as given by Davis Young and Ralph Stearley. These criticisms can be grouped under five broad headings: The Preponderance of Geological Evidence Does Not Support the Global Flood…
(Part 1) (Part 2) The previous post summarized the classic global flood model proposed by John Whitcomb and Henry Morris. This post examines current model by looking primarily, but not exclusively, at the work of Andrew Snelling. Current Global Flood Models Whitcomb and Morris inspired a generation of young-earth creationists. One such YEC proponent is Australian geologist Andrew Snelling. Snelling…
(Part 1) The Classic Global Flood Theory of Whitcomb and Morris In 1961, John Whitcomb and Henry Morris published The Genesis Flood, launching the current young-earth creationist movement. This post summarizes five of the book’s most significant claims, particularly its claim to show fossil evidence of humans and dinosaurs living together. Whitcomb and Morris argued: 1) Opposition to Uniformitarianism: Uniformitarianism is…
In 1961, John Whitcomb and Henry Morris published The Genesis Flood. They intended the work to be a response to Bernard Ramm, who in 1954 had published a work arguing that Noah’s Deluge was a local catastrophe. Borrowing heavily from George McCready Price (1870-1963), a Seventh-Day Adventist author, Whitcomb and Morris contended that the flood of Noah’s day accounts for…
These past weeks have been some of the hardest in my 40+ years in ministry. There has been a near daily “punch to the gut” as we’ve processed devastating news about peers and mentors with whom we have served. As Penny and I head to the convention in a little over a week, it will be with heavy yet hopeful…