Science and Scripture
On several occasions, I've blogged about the relationship between the modern worldview, which emphasizes science, math, categorization, etc. as ways of finding truth and the subtle ways that our view of scripture has been coopted by that viewpoint.
Bible.org has a great paper on this issue that can be found here. This paper is definitely from the academic realm, so its quite difficult to get through if you're not used to reading that sort-of stuff, but - based on a quick review - I think the author does a pretty good job of demonstrating how Christians have been misusing scientific methodologies to interpret scripture in a way that makes our faith seem more credible under a modern worldview. In particular, this paper discusses the development of dispensationalism, but the same idea could be applied to any number of other concepts.
Technorati Tags: modernism, dispensationalism, science, the Bible
Bible.org has a great paper on this issue that can be found here. This paper is definitely from the academic realm, so its quite difficult to get through if you're not used to reading that sort-of stuff, but - based on a quick review - I think the author does a pretty good job of demonstrating how Christians have been misusing scientific methodologies to interpret scripture in a way that makes our faith seem more credible under a modern worldview. In particular, this paper discusses the development of dispensationalism, but the same idea could be applied to any number of other concepts.
Technorati Tags: modernism, dispensationalism, science, the Bible
posted by Matt at Saturday, January 28, 2006
1 Comments:
Some great points, as usual, Jonathan. I especially like your view of systematic theology.
I also agree that postmodernism (whatever it ultimately turns out to be) will collapse just like modernism has - and then probably get traded in for something ELSE. However, I think that Pomo is probably here to stay, so its important for us to start thinking about how the gospel can be told/seen/present in that culture/framework.
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