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Disability and the Resurrection
April 21, 2022
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Ars Vitae
March 10, 2022
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Transhumanism and the Image of God
February 25, 2022
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You Are Not Your Own
January 24, 2022
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In Quest of the Historical Adam
January 6, 2022
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Divine Variations
August 20, 2021
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The Goodness of Creation
May 7, 2021
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The Righteous Mind
April 22, 2021
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Plundering Eden
March 26, 2021
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Coronavirus and the Goodness of Creation
November 5, 2020
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Reformed Theology and Evolutionary Science
October 20, 2020
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The Genealogical Adam and Eve
August 17, 2020
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Divine Action and the Human Mind
June 29, 2020
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The Neo-Aristotelian Resurgence
May 11, 2020
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Genes, Determinism, and God
May 4, 2020
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Prosperity Gospel, Healing, and Divine Action
December 18, 2019
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RCS: Pauline Anthropology
May 13, 2019
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On Human Mortality
May 15, 2018
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Controversy of the Ages
November 30, 2017
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Adam and the Genome
June 5, 2017
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Reading Genesis with the Church
April 12, 2017
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Image-Bearing in the Toy Story Trilogy
September 1, 2015
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Jubilee
February 20, 2015
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RCS: New Testament
January 7, 2015
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The Work of the Lord
October 13, 2014
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Disability and the Resurrection
April, 2022

Will (all) disabilities be (completely) healed in the resurrection?

Disability and the Resurrection: An Introduction
D. Christopher Ralston
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Shining through the Cracks
D. Christopher Ralston
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Impairments in the Resurrection?
John Berkman
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Sin, Resurrection, and Disability
Devan Stahl
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Why Heaven Is Not Just a Better Version of Vegas
Brian Brock
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As a Seed Is to the Plant
Benjamin T. Conner
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Ars Vitae
March, 2022

This series looks at ancient philosophy's questions about the good life and what those answers might mean for contemporary culture.

The Art of Living
Joshua Jipp
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Coping Strategies and the Consolation of God
Philip Woodward
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Of Spiritual Journeys and Autobiographies
Louis Markos
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The Art of Ars Vitae
Christina Bieber Lake
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The Recovery of Creatureliness
Julien C. H. Smith
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Ars Vitae: A Response to the Symposium
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
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Transhumanism and the Image of God
February, 2022

Can reflection on transhumanism help clarify what we mean by imago Dei?

Transhumanism and the Image of God
Nathan Barczi
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The Goodness of Creaturely Limitations
Nathan Barczi
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Dialing Up the Contrast
Jeff Hardin
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Made in God’s Image in Order to Become More Like Christ
Christina Bieber Lake
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The Frailties of Embodied Existence
C. Ben Mitchell
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Image and Transhumanism
Stephen Williams
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You Are Not Your Own
January, 2022

This series based on Alan Noble's You Are Not Your Own explores our modern world built around the self. This world as we've shaped it is not a conducive environment for our flourishing--but freedom is found in belonging to God.

You Are Not Your Own
Joey Sherrard
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Not Despising the Day of Small Things
Daniel J. Brendsel
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Children Who Belong
Hannah Anderson
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Disenculturation and Spiritual Formation
John Starke
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The Language of Identity
Rachel Gilson
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Prodigal Hospitality
Russ Whitfield
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Something Like a Christian Humanism
Alan Noble
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In Quest of the Historical Adam
January, 2022

In this work, William Lane Craig parses through the biblical and scientific evidence on the historicity of Adam and Eve. He examines what it might mean for Genesis 1-11 to be "mytho-history."

In Quest of the Historical Adam
Ken Keathley
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Literality, Incredulity, and Hermeneutical Schizophrenia
Hans Madueme
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Exegetical Response: A Cost-Benefit Evaluation
C. John Collins
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Humans, Homo sapiens, and the Image of God
Michael J. Murray
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Human Genomics and Divine Intervention
Leslea J. Hlusko
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Restating the Benefit of My Proposal: A Rejoinder
William Lane Craig
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Divine Variations
August, 2021

Terrence Keel uncovers the way Christian thought became racial science. This symposium looks at the important questions this book raises about anthropology, creation, divine agency, medical practice, scientific racism, reception history, and white supremacy.

Introducing Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science
Nathan Luis Cartagena
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“Made of One Blood”: Eurocentric Monogenism and Equiano’s Interesting Narrative
Eric Michael Washington
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We Are the Gods: Modern Science, Human Difference, and the Christian Imagination
Jules A. Martinez-Olivieri
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Global Racialization
Tite Tiénou
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The Contingency of Ideas and the
Moral Value of Science
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Do Europe and America Believe in
Their Own Gods?
Terence Keel
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The Goodness of Creation
May, 2021

What do Christians mean when they confess that creation is good? The question is compounded by the appearance of evil in the world. This series explores for elements of creation’s goodness: The goodness of its Creator, created being, materiality, and its end.

The Goodness of the Creator and the Creative Act
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The Goodness of Created Existence
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The (Relative) Goodness of Our Concrete Materiality
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The Goodness of Creation’s End: Beatitude and God’s Goodness
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Tyler Wittman
The Righteous Mind
April, 2021

In this book, social pscyhologist Jonathan Haidt explains the connection between morality, politics, and religion. The Righteous Mind addresses how moral decisions are based on intuition rather than reason.

The Righteous Mind: Introducing the Symposium
C. John Collins
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Moral Intuitions in Science and Scripture
Kirsten Birkett
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Better Reasoning and Moral Foundations May Unite Us
Anthony B. Bradley
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A Grand Narrative for Civil Discourse
J. Daryl Charles
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Moral Psychology, Christianity, and Pursuing the Common Good
Joshua Jipp
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Paul, the Elephant, and the Rider
Te-Li Lau
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Toward an Embodied Moral Theology
A. Mark Stirling
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The Righteous Mind: Concluding Thoughts
C. John Collins
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Plundering Eden
March, 2021

This book fits within that emerging field of Christian theological responses to ecological problems. In Plundering Eden, Wagenfuhr claims that the root cause of our ecological is a broken imagination, and he argues that reconciliation with God the Creator through Jesus Christ is the only means to ecological healing through a renewed, kenotic imagination expressed in the creation of an alternate environment that reveals the kingdom of God--the ekklesia.

Plundering Eden: Introducing the Symposium
Ken Keathley
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Rewilding Creation and Receiving the Eucharist
Brian Brock
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Priests of Creation, Not Only Ambassadors
Alexander Coe Stewart
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Virtues, Vices, and Ecotheology
Celia Deane-Drummond
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A Radical Challenge to Christian Discipleship
J. Richard Middleton
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Plundering Eden: A Rejoinder
G. P. Wagenfuhr
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Coronavirus and the Goodness of Creation
November, 2020

Is the Coronavirus evil?

Coronavirus and the Goodness of Creation
Hans Madueme
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Naming Natural Evils
Jim Stump
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Gerald L. Bray
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A Wheat and Weeds Creation
Gregory A. Boyd
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Where the Coronavirus Didn’t Originate—and Maybe Did
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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In Death as in Life
Katherine Sonderegger
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Is the Coronavirus Still Not Evil? A Rejoinder
Daniel Harrell
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Reformed Theology and Evolutionary Science
October, 2020

Gijsbert van den Brink has joined the fray of science and religion with a contribution from the perspective of the Reformed tradition. In his monograph, van den Brink brings his training in philosophy of science into conversation with the theological particularities of the Reformed tradition.

Distinctive Stances and Layered Concepts: Reformed Theology Engages Science
Oliver Crisp
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Evolutionary Theory and the Story of Scripture
Craig G. Bartholomew
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Evolutionary Evil and the Project of Theodicy
Michael J. Murray
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Common Descent, Human Dignity,
and the Image of God
Mary L. Vanden Berg
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Telling a Different Story?
Van den Brink's Account of Human Origins
Scott R. Swain
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Darwin and Divine Providence
David Fergusson
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Morality, the Cognitive Science of Religion,
and Revelation
Sarah Lane Ritchie
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Reformed Theology and Evolutionary Theory:
A Rejoinder
Gijsbert van den Brink
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The Genealogical Adam and Eve
August, 2020

Evolutionary science teaches that humans arose as a population, sharing common ancestors with other animals. The book of Genesis seems to say that all humans descended from Adam and Eve, a couple specially created by God. These two teachings seem contradictory, but is that necessarily so? In the Genalogical Adam and Eve, Swamidass draws upon some well-established but overlooked scientific insights to advance a new proposal on this old conversation.

The Genealogical Adam and Eve:
Introducing the Symposium
Ken Keathley
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Is Adam God's First Image-Bearer?
Andrew Loke
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Let Scripture Speak Clearly
Richard Averbeck
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An Invitation to Reclaim Mystery and Pursue Unity
Anjeanette Roberts
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Which Game? Whose Rules?
Paul Nelson
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Hedges Around His Garden
Marcus Ross
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The Genealogical Adam and Eve: A Rejoinder
S. Joshua Swamidass
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Divine Action and the Human Mind
June, 2020

Is the human mind uniquely nonphysical or even spiritual, such that divine intentions can meet physical realities? As scholars in science and religion have spent decades attempting to identify a 'causal joint' between God and the natural world, human consciousness has been often privileged as just such a locus of divine-human interaction. Resisting this intuitively dualistic model, as well as contemporary noninterventionist theories divine action theories, Sarah Lane Ritchie argues that a theologically robust theistic naturalism, which she believes offers a more compelling vision of divine action in the mind.

Divine Action and the Human Mind: Introducing the Symposium
Paul M. Gould
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The Enchanted and Dappled Place We Live
Jason D. Runyan
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Taking the Theological Turn
William J. Abraham
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On the Very Idea of Theological Naturalism
Bruce L. Gordon
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Divine Action and the Human Mind: A Rejoinder
Sarah Lane Ritchie
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The Neo-Aristotelian Resurgence
May, 2020

The Aristotelian Resurgence
Paul M. Gould
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Aristotle's Theater and Empirical Science
Nicholas Teh
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The Neo-Aristotelian Resurgence and the Retrieval of the Human Good
Ross D. Inman
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Tracing Aristotle’s Revival, Hoping for Another
Robert C. Koons
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The Need for Human Nature
Alexander R. Pruss
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Genes, Determinism, and God
May, 2020

In this book, the product of Denis Alexander's Gifford Lectures, he addresses the complex interplay between biological claims about genes, philosophical claims about determinism and theological claims about God.

Genes, Determinism, and God: Introducing the Symposium
Ken Keathley
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Intuitions about Immateriality
Ken Keathley
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Determining What Makes Me the Way I Am
Clay Carlson
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Philosophical Worries About Denis Alexander's Incurable Problem
Michael Ruse
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More Than Our Genes
Michael Wittmer
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Genes, Determinism, and God: A Rejoinder
Denis Alexander
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Prosperity Gospel, Healing, and Divine Action
December, 2019

Why do Christians outside the West experience far more instances of miraculous divine activity than their brothers and sisters in the West?

Prosperity Gospel, Healing, and Divine Action: An Introduction
Hans Madueme
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Cultural Worldview and Spiritual Dynamics
Chul-Soo Caleb Kim
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An African Perspective on Miracles and Divine Action
Bulus Galadima
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Reflections on Miraculous Divine Activity by a Christian Anthropologist
Robert Priest
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Inseparability Between the African and Biblical Worlds
Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
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Miraculous Divine Activity and Religious Worldviews
Jungja Ma
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RCS: Pauline Anthropology
May, 2019

The Inexpungable Notio Dei Implanted by God
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Image Bearers of the First and Second Adam
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The Natural Image and the Redeemed Image
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A Wolf, a Serpent, and Forgiveness in Spite of the Old Nature
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Spiritual Sacrifices of the Spiritual Priesthood
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There Is No Such Thing as Free Will
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The Whole Person Affected by Original Sin
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Men Are Like the Sun, Women Are Like the Moon
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What Human Reason Is Good For
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Reformation Commentary
On Human Mortality
May, 2018

Were humans mortal before the fall?

The Enigma of Death: An introduction
Hans Madueme
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Humans Created Mortal, with the Possibility of Eternal Life
J. Richard Middleton
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Irenaeus, Augustine, and Evolutionary Science
Andrew McCoy
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Mortal before the Fall? I Don’t Know, I Don’t Think You Do, and It Doesn’t Matter
C. John Collins
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Death, the Last Enemy
Todd Beall
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Was Adam Created Mortal or Immortal? Getting Beyond the Labels
Joshua Van Ee
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Bearing the Marks of Our Mortality
Gijsbert van den Brink
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Controversy of the Ages
November, 2017

This book examines the way evangelicals handle science-theology conflicts and read Scripture in light thereof. It claims the “battle” between science and theology has been oversimplified and in some arenas misreported.

Introduction to "Controversy of the Ages"
Darrell Bock
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Toward Resolving the Controversy
Hugh Ross
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Mere Creationism
Tim Morris
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The Importance of Beginnings
Paul Garner
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Controversy and Conversation
Jim Stump
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Response to the Symposium
Ted Cabal
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Adam and the Genome
June, 2017

Prevailing genomic science holds that humans descend from a large population. Is this science to be believed and why? And biblically and theologically, what does this mean for the fate of Adam and Eve? In this Biologos sponsored book, evangelical geneticist Dennis Venema and popular New Testament scholar Scot McKnight combine their expertise to proffer an account of “Adam and the genome.”

Adam and the Genome: Introducing the Symposium
Hans Madueme
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What God Has Joined Together
Darrell Bock
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On Insulin, Orangoutangs, and Adam
Jitse van der Meer
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Wanted: A Plausible, Post-Genomic Biblical Adam and Eve
Elizabeth "Lisa" Sung
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A Genealogical Adam and Eve in Evolution
S. Joshua Swamidass
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If Christ Be Not Raised: Reflections on Methodological Naturalism
Fazale Rana
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Response to the Symposium (Part 1)
Dennis Venema
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Response to the Symposium (Part 2)
Scot McKnight
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Science, Theology, & Charitable Discussion: A Symposium Recap
Thomas H. McCall
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Reading Genesis with the Church
April, 2017

Reading Genesis with the Church
Keith Stanglin
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Irenaeus: Creation & the Father's Two Hands
Anthony Briggman
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Origen: Decoding Genesis
Mark Scott
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Creation & Time in Basil’s Hexaemeron
Andrew Brown
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Augustine, Genesis, & the Goodness of Creation
Bradley Green
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Genesis 2:7 & the Meaning of 'Life' in Cyril of Alexandria's Theology
David Maxwell
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Time, Text, & Creation: The Venerable Bede on Genesis 1
Timothy Furry
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History & the Hexaëmeron
Daniel Wade McClain
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Terms of the Divine Art: Aquinas on Creation
Joshua Lee Harris
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Martin Luther: Student of the Creation
Mickey Mattox
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Creation & the 'Matter' of Scripture: Calvin on Genesis
Rebekah Earnshaw
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Image-Bearing in the Toy Story Trilogy
September, 2015

"Whose name is written there?" Image-bearing and beyond
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Your Chief, Andy, Inscribed His Name on Me
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"Didn't You See?! Andy Threw Us Out!"
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"Maybe Andy'll Get Another Dinosaur!"
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"Whose Name Is Written There?" A Biblical Reflection on the Image of God
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Todd Hains
Jubilee
February, 2015

Grace and the Jubilee
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The Jubilee of Malcolm X
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Implementing Jubilee: The Problem of “Creative Destruction”
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The Jubilee of Forgiveness
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The Jubilee of Forgiveness and Image-Flourishing
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Forgiveness and Receiving Forgiveness
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Jubilee, Temptation, and Growth in Awareness (1)
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Jubilee, Temptation, and Growth in Awareness (2)
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Jubilee, Temptation, and Growth in Awareness (3)
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Jubilee, Temptation, and Growth in Awareness: Lord, Give Us Grace
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Augustine on the Ultimate Channel of Grace
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The Church as Channel of Jubilee
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What Is the Black Church?
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Critical Definitions for the Way to a Jubilee-Centered Church
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A Condition for Jubilee and Justice
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Image-Flourishing Thwarted: Jubilee Confronts Jealousy
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Jubilee: Healing the Polluted Soul of a Land (I)
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Jubilee: Healing the Polluted Soul of a Land (2)
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Bruce Fields
RCS: New Testament
January, 2015

God Almighty Becomes All Weakness for Us
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Christ Places Himself under the Law
to Redeem Us from It
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Simeon Received a Great Blessing
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“Let Us Make” Points to God’s Unity and Trinity
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The Foundation of Faith, Opposed by the Heretics
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Christ, the Image of God, and Assurance of Salvation
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Faith Accepts the Mercy of God
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Like the Women, Seek Jesus Early
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The Angels Announce that the Resurrection
Is for Our Benefit
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God Is Present Where Two Are Gathered
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Jesus Criticizes the Disciples for
Failing to Understand
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This Is What Christ Said
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We Must Follow Christ’s Example
in Celebrating His Supper
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Wisdom versus Foolishness: A Battle Christians Cannot Live Without
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Personal Property Is Unnatural
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Reformation Commentary
The Work of the Lord
October, 2014

Achievement: A Theological Exploration
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Faith@Work Summit
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Defining "Achievement"
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Achievement Is Relative
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Achievement and "Potential"
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In the beginning . . . God achieved
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Made to Achieve
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Achievement Is Messed Up
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Joseph: A Case Study in Achievement (Part 1)
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Joseph: A Case Study in Achievement (Part 2)
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Proverbs: Ordinary Achievement
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Achievement Is Futile
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An Old Testament Round-Up on Achievement
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The Parable of the Talents (1)
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The Parable of the Talents (2)
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Martha & Mary
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Bearing Fruit: Fruitfulness and Achievement in Johannine Perspective
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Achievement as Sons of God
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Achievement and the Cross
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Achievement and Boasting
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Paul and Work
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The Work of the Lord
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The Work of the Lord & Christian Ministry
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Ministry and Your Day Job
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Fan into flame the gift of God
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Igniting the Flame: Implications of God's Gifting
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A New Testament Round-up on Achievement
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The Overachiever
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5 Bad Motivations for Achievement
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An “Achievement Double Standard” in the Church
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Achievement and Church Culture
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Constantine Campbell