This issue concludes with Zachary Wagner’s exploration of ways in which the Christian gospel may be particularly well-equipped to speak into a worldview shaped by belief in evolution.
Douglas Estes turns our attention to the near-future and critiques transhumanist technological optimism by reminding us of the devastating effects of sin, and the impotence of technological solutions to address this fundamental human problem.
Ryan Davidson examines aspects of Herman Bavinck’s Christology as they relate to the catholic creeds and Reformed confessions, and also to the Modern Christologies of his near-contemporaries.
Jeremy Mann turns to a significant theological contemporary and draws lessons John Milbank’s approach to the doctrine of creation in relation to evolutionary theory, in order to help pastors avoid the pitfalls of talking foolishly about evolution.
Gerald Hiestand begins Issue 6.1 by pointing us to the rich resources of St Irenaeus of Lyon’s doctrine of creation to help the Church affirm the creaturely goodness of the material world.
Nathan Barczi draws creatively on Karl Barth and Jeremy Begbie’s reflections on the music of Mozart to ask how this might shed light on the problem of non-human suffering before the Fall.
Scott Hafemann concludes the volume on a strongly pastoral note, offering a moving and challenging response to the Tohoku Tsunami-Fukushima Devastation of 2011, by means of a theological reading of Jesus’ teaching in Luke 13:1-5.
Gray Sutanto engages in some intellectual archaeology to demonstrate commonalities between a recent non-historical approach to the Fall and that of Friederich Schleiermacher.
Gerald Hiestand brings both Irenaeus and Augustine into conversation with evolutionary theory to explore the potential resources each pre-modern bishop offers in engaging a post-Darwinian world.
Nathan Chang calls for clarity in thinking about human dignity, which on a properly theological account also includes a recognition of creaturely humility.
Joel Lawrence engages Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus to sound a theological alarm over the technologically driven “new human agenda” but also, more urgently for this journal’s readership, over the (lack of ) readiness of the contemporary evangelical churches to address faithfully the near-future of humanity.
Matthew O’Reilly orients us to the Bible by providing a critical analysis of Gerd Thiessen’s proposed “Darwinian Hermeneutic” for reading Scripture.
Joseph Sherrard articulates a biblical doctrine of the mortification of sin that challenges and corrects the distortions of an exclusively therapeutic gospel.
Jim Samra brings 2 Corinthians 3-5 to bear on the insights of behavioral science to enable a more theological evaluation of their limitations in light of people’s need for divinely accomplished rebirth and maturation.
Michael LeFebvre offers a careful and hermeneutically aware reading of the story of Abigail and Nabal (1 Sam. 25) to mine it for insights into mental healthcare.
By means of a rich exposition of Jacques Ellul’s thinking about ‘technique’, Joel Lawrence considers how Ellul can help Christians to avoid conforming to the world, and instead to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
Benjamin Espinoza compares John Wesley, George Whitefield and contemporary white evangelicalism to call for more faithful formation that is aware of and addresses racial prejudice.
Adam Copenhaver builds on St Luke’s use of history and theology to provide assurance to show how pastors might similarly seek the spiritual formation of believers from doubt to certainty.
Todd Wilson articulates the importance of an integrated approach to formation that takes seriously our embodiment and also the recent discoveries of neuropsychology.
In an article at once exegetical and pastoral, B. G. White reflects on depression in the light of Christ’s experience in Gethsemane.
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