Biblical Studies

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Creation & Evolution

«Faith in Christ is not in conflict with true science, because it is not in union with ignorance». —St Philaret of Moscow.

• Stephen M. Barr, The Design of Evolution. "True contingency in the created order is not incompatible with a purposeful divine providence. Divine causality and created causality radically differ in kind and not only in degree. Thus, even the outcome of a purely contingent natural process can nonetheless fall within God’s providential plan." Seems like a no-brainer, but it's amazing how hard it is to convince people that creation did not / does not take place on the same level of causality as the generation of things in time. Article from First Things 156 (October 2005), 9-12.
• George Theokritoff, with Elizabeth Theokritoff, “Genesis and Creation: Towards a Debate”. Review of Seraphim Rose, Genesis, Creation and Early Man: The Orthodox Christian Vision (St Herman of Alaska Brotherhood: Platina, California, 2000) in St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 46-4 (2002), pp. 365-90.
• Stephen Jay Gould, "Nonoverlapping Magisteria", An article which appeared in Natural History, March 1997, on creationism and evolution.
• Bernard W. Anderson, "Exodus Typology in Second Isaiah". Chapter XII of B. Anderson & W. Harrelson, eds., Israel's Prophetic Heritage: Essays in Honor of James Muilenburg. Harper & Brothers, 1962. pp. 177-195. Now why would I put this under "Creation and Evolution"?
• Margaret Barker, “Paradise Lost: Adamic Imagery and the Environment”: Religion, Science, & the Environment Symposium IV: The Adriatic (symposium held under the auspices of the Patriarch of Constantinople, 5-11 June 2002). On Adam and the Tree of Life.