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6 - Red in Tooth and Claw

Creationism, Evolution, and the Blood of Christ

from Part III - Blood Makes a Language in Which to Conduct Disputes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

Eugene F. Rogers, Jr
Eugene F. Rogers, Jr
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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In modern creationism, blood-language (even more than a high view of scripture) determines whether evolution can be true. In One Blood, leading creationist Ken Ham finds evolution too bloody for a good God. A good God could hardly use predation, extinction, and death as a means. For Ham, blood sets humans at one with or apart from the “dumb beasts.” But Ham drafts too narrow an atonement, where the blood of Christ makes up only for sin. Blood must also mean solidarity. Uses Irenaeus, William Jennings Bryan, Marilyn Adams, Teilhard de Chardin, Sergei Bulgakov.

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bloodevolutiontheodicyviolenceTeilhard de ChardinSergei BulgakovcreationismKen HamWilliam Jennings Bryansuffering
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Blood Theology
Seeing Red in Body- and God-Talk
 , pp. 131 - 160
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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