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Author: David Opderbeck
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Hunsinger on Faith and Evidence
This post by George Hunsinger I think is excellent.
This is an excellent video from N.T. Wright. I think he’s right that faithful readings of the text must try to disentangle the text from our prior cultural and political assumptions and battles.
My next post is up at Jesus Creed: Seven Theses on a Missional Approach to Law.
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Christian Law Profs Conference
I’m at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in New Orleans. Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a work-in-progress on “Law, Neurobiology, and the Human Soul” at the Law Professors Christian Fellowship Conference on Christian Legal Thought, which runs concurrently with the AALS. There should be some interesting panels and a chance to connect with some friends. I’m looking forward to it.
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An Augur of the New Year?
Yesterday morning I spent some time thinking an praying about the coming new year. I felt refreshed and encouraged about some things I hope to be able to do and enjoy in 2010. After celebrating in the evening with our neighbors, a gaggle of kids came by to sleep over our house. I went to sleep at about 12:30 a.m., feeling cozy.
At around 2:00 a.m., my eleven-year-old son woke me up, breathlessly explaining that his friend who was sleeping over felt sick. I trundled down to the basement family room, and there it was: chunky, pungent projectile vomit on the couch, the beanbag chairs, the Xbox remote, the kid’s clothing. Apparently, staying up till all hours playing video games while gorging on nachos and soda after eating platefuls of cocktail weenies and dip does not sit well with the stomachs of some 11-year-old boys. Did you know that if a kid has carrots for dinner, they still are recognizable as carrots when they come back out the same end six hours later?
But 2:45 a.m. or so I had everything cleaned up, nearly losing my own cookies several times in the process. The poor kid’s dad picked him up and I headed back up to bed.
Ah yes. It’s going to be a very good year!
My guest post on ID and Religion is up on Science and the Sacred. I conclude there that ID is an inherently “religious” theory that ultimately undermines Christian theology about “creation”:
In my view, we must do this kind of “chastened” natural theology from a self-consciously and irreducibly theological standpoint that ultimately cannot be fully appreciated without the gracious prior work of the Spirit. This is an act of proclamation that simply cannot be undertaken in the pluralistic setting of a public school classroom. Indeed, why would we want to compromise our holistic and comprehensive understanding of God as “creator” in order to accommodate the Byzantine peculiarities of 21st century American constitutional jurisprudence?
Ours is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the I Am who spoke all creation into existence, the Triune Godhead who extended His perichoretic love to create and fellowship with that which is other than Himself, who in the person of the eternal Logos was present before the foundation of the world, in whom all things hold together and by whom all things will be made new. Should we diminish this God by suggesting that what He has done might just as well have been accomplished by some human-like alien “intelligence?” Isn’t this a strategy of denying Christ to appease Caesar?
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My post on hate crimes and “thought crimes” is now up on Jesus Creed.
This is a wonderful article in the Cresset on scrapbooking and the nature of history.