Ronald Osborn

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  Death Before The Fall

  $29.00

  Introduction

  Part One: On Literalism

  Chapter One: The Creation: A Plain Reading
  Chapter Two: What’s Eating Biblical Literalists?: Creationism & The Enlightenment Project
  Chapter Three: Unwholesome Complexity: Literalism As Scientism’s Pale Mimetic Rival
  Chapter Four: Progressive Vs. Degenerating Science: Weighing Incommensurable Paradigms
  Chapter Five: Does Your God Need Stage Props?: On The Theological Necessity Of Methodological Atheism
  Chapter Six: The Enclave Mentality: Identity Foreclosure & The Fundamentalist Mind
  Chapter Seven: The Gnostic Syndrome: When Literalism Becomes A Heresy
  Chapter Eight: Four Witnesses Barth, Calvin, Augustine, & Maimonides On The Literal Meaning Of Genesis
  Chapter Nine: If Not Foundationalism, What Then?: From Tower-Building To Net-Mending

  Part Two: On Animal Suffering

  Epigraph Two: In Praise Of Self-Deprecation
  Chapter Ten: Stasis, Deception, Curse: Three Literalist Dilemmas
  Chapter Eleven: A Midrash: C. S. Lewis’s Cosmic Conflict Theodicy Revisited
  Chapter Twelve: God Of The Whirlwind: Animal Ferocity In The Book Of Job
  Chapter Thirteen: Creation & Kenosis: Evolution And Christ’s Self Emptying Way Of The Cross
  Chapter Fourteen: Animal Ethics, Sabbath Rest

  Conclusion

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  In this eloquent and provocative “open letter” to evangelicals, Ronald Osborn wrestles with the problem of biblical literalism and the ongoing challenge of animal suffering within an evolutionary understanding of the world. Osborn forces us to ask hard questions, not only of the Bible and church tradition, but also and especially of ourselves.

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  Faith We Affirm

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  Although now featuring a new cover, The Faith We Affirm, by Ronald E. Osborn, remains the same useful resource on the inside. This overview is based on the statement of faith in the Preamble to The Design for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Designed to engage Disciples in thinging responsibly about the faith we affirm in the light of our heritage, this resource will work as either an individual or group study.

  The Faith We Affirm includes six chapters that can be used for an intensive six-session course or divided to supply a quarter’s study. Questions for discussion and reflection end each chapter.

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