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The Durupฤฑnar site on the border between Tรผrkiye and Iran, showing the structure claimed to be Noah's Ark, in 2007. By Rod Benson According to the Book of Genesis, Noahโs Ark once saved the worldโs animals from extinction. Today, in the latest of many archaeological expeditions to the region, a dry sonic core drill is …
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The Season of Creation Part 3 By Rod Benson Norman Habelโs Earth Bible project and Australian Season of Creation teach Christians to notice dimensions of Scripture that anthropocentric habits of interpretation often obscure. Yet Habelโs work leaves unfinished questions. How should ecological interpretation lead to discipleship? How should Christians committed to biblical authority and the …
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Dr. Norman C. Habel, Professor Emeritus, Flinders University of South Australia The Season of Creation Part 2 By Rod Benson Norman C. Habelโs most substantial contribution to ecological biblical scholarship was his leadership in the Earth Bible Project, an international collaborative venture that sought deliberately to read Scripture from the perspective of Earth. Closely related …
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Southern Baptist minister and educator Edgar Young Mullins. By Rod Benson Historically, Baptists have often been described as a radical and dissenting people. Not primarily conservative or fundamentalist, but radical and dissenting. That is the historic Baptist DNA. The earliest Baptists emerged from the contested religious world of post-Reformation Europe, questioning inherited ecclesiastical arrangements, rejecting …
On reading one of my recent articles on reading Scripture in a climate emergency (Part 1), a friend raised a point many secular bystanders may well be asking: โI would have thought we were way past the point of needing to rely on biblical or ecological hermeneutics to help us understand the dimensions of the …
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