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special evolution entirely inoffensive. One of Darwin’s earliest and most vigorous champions, the extremely accomplished American botanist Asa Gray (1810–88), was a devout Christian who saw such evolution as a manifestation of God’s creative power in the fabric of nature.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Christianity is an ego-preservation narrative. The very conception of an afterlife is a defense mechanism for eternal continuation of the self. If the entry ticket into Heaven is as simple as believing in Christ, then it enables a believer to go their whole life without actually living like Christ. While Christian myth helped us move from the pagan
... See moreFundamental Reduction of Application-Consistent Outline Introduction: Develop the need to proclaim Christ to everyone. Proposition: We must proclaim Christ to the world. Analytical Question: Why? I. Jesus alone purchased salvation. II. Jesus alone possesses salvation. III. Jesus alone bestows salvation.
Bryan Chapell • Christ-Centered Preaching
special evolution entirely inoffensive. One of Darwin’s earliest and most vigorous champions, the extremely accomplished American botanist Asa Gray (1810–88), was a devout Christian who saw such evolution as a manifestation of God’s creative power in the fabric of nature.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
For Agassiz, as for Silliman and others, to study nature was to study the works of God. He had little use for formal religion because, as he once wrote to Dana, he had seen too much in his life of overbearing clerics and religious bigotry. But there could be no evolutionary process as depicted by Darwin for the simple reason that all species were
... See moreDavid McCullough • Brave Companions
Prior to Darwin’s account of life’s slow ascent from bacteria to Bach, it was easier to believe in a kind of special creation, where having first made the cosmos God then sculpted each species in its finished form, making every plant and animal’s mere existence a standing proof of the miraculous. The mechanism of evolution by natural selection, by
... See moreRoss Douthat • Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious
the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that
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