Bibliography of Valuable Resources

Faith & Science Conversation
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This is a good idea, but unless it is organized into an indexed database, as it grows it will eventually become unwieldy and unusable.

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Not a very encouraging outlook, I’m afraid. No one is obliged to participate.
I guess we’ll see if it works.

  • Tagging is all the rage now, even among professional catalogers.
  • The Fora are searchable. I have found a good deal that way, so I’m fairly confident that anyone who includes “bibliography” in their search terms will get to this, and if people include useful words in their “bibliographic records” users will be able to find what they need.
  • Posters can edit their “bibliographic record posts” if they feel their item is being missed.

I work in state government. Many of us regularly deal with things not working and having to create work-arounds to actually accomplish something.

If it fails, it fails.
If no one participates, no one participates.
If people love it, they love it.
If it helps 3 people sane and 2 forgetful people find a title they knew was helpful but couldn’t remember more than that it was a paper back, mostly black with a gallexy and dinosaur bones on the cover, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
We have no way of knowing, unless we try.

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Published: 2018
Author: Barbara Brown Taylor
Book: Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
Publisher: Harper One
Amazon link ($12.99 for Kindle edition as of this posting March 2022)

If you’re a Christian who has grown uncomfortable with how that faith tradition has interacted with people of other faiths or no religious faith at all, and are ready to explore positive ways of relating to the rest of the world without turning your back on your own faith - this book is for you. But that comes with this caveat (that the author herself will volunteer): Your own faith and your own notions of who God is and who all God reaches will not easily emerge from this book unscathed. So if you are of the kind of person who feels a need to maintain a list of institutions or authors who stray outside a carefully policed perimeter of doctrinal boundaries, - then this book will not be for you. This author is entirely comfortable wrestling with scriptures. She writes very relationally and openly about how her own faith was changed as a result of her experiences with her students. It will help Christians (or anyone) relate more attentively and responsively with other major faith traditions of the world.

Religious pluralism, respect, dialogue, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism

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Not trying to rain on your parade. I just think this would work better in a relational database. Are you leaving this information in this thread?

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I don’t think anybody is under the illusion that a thread in a forum will be as efficient as or do all the heavy lifting that dedicated databases (and libraries themselves) will do. It’s just a quick and easy crowd-sourced repository for great resources. In this computer age, it doesn’t even need to be ordered as Kendel pointed out to me. Search engines will do the heavy lifting of sorting through a long thread to find a fragment of a title or author. She’s not trying to compete with full-fledged institutions here. Just helping us pool our valuables in an easier-to-find spot for those who like to hang around these here parts! :books:

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If you can find the volunteer, LibraryThing and TinyCat are perfect for what you suggest.

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  • Date published/Date: 2019
  • Author/Editor/Responsible Party: Todd Charled Wood, Darrell Falk
  • Article or Chapter Title
  • Resource Title: The Fool and the Heretic: How Two Scientists Moved beyond Labels to a Christian Dialogue about Creation and Evolution
  • Publisher: Zondervan
  • Link
  • Description: The Fool and the Heretic is told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church; provides a model for how faithful Christians can hold opposing views on deeply divisive issues yet grow deeper in their relationship to each other and to God.
    Science and faith;Gracious dialogue; Gracious discourse.
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  • Date published/Date: originally written in 1979
  • Author/Editor/Responsible Party: Gary Zukov
  • Article or Chapter Title
  • Resource Title: Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
  • Publisher: HarperOne
  • https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Wu-Li-Masters-Overview/dp/0060959681
  • Description: This is a long time go-to for an introduction to modern physics, including quantum physics. This book is much more entertaining than the staid descriptions of physics in other books aimed at the general public. Zukov uses Buddhist concepts to give physics a somewhat spiritual context, but it is by no means a book meant to convert anyone to Buddhism. It is somewhat “new agey”, but only in the mall store crystal paperweight kind of way, and the surface treatment of spirituality shouldn’t offend any Christian. If you ask for suggestions on a good book to learn about the basics of modern physics this book will always be near the top.
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  • Date published: 2019
  • Author: James Montgomery Boice
  • Article or Chapter Title
  • Resource Title: Foundations of the Christian Faith: Revised and Expanded
  • Publisher: Intervarsity Press
  • Link: Foundations of the Christian Faith - InterVarsity Press
  • 50-ish words listing: This is a very readable, thorough, easily-searchable, basic overview of Protestant theology, written for the intellegent layperson. The tone of the book is friendly without relying on stories. Excellent indexing and table of content. The book lends itself to a read through as well as use as a reference work.
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MacCauley was interviewed for the Language of God podcast Esau McCaulley | Justice & the Bible - Podcast Episode - BioLogos.

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  • Date published: 2020
  • Author: Ben Stanhope
  • Title: (Mis)interpreting Genesis: How the Creation Museum Misunderstands the Ancient Near Eastern Context of the Bible
  • Publisher: Scarab Press
  • Link: https://www.amazon.com/Mis-interpreting-Genesis-Creation-Misunderstands/dp/0578823691
  • 50-ish words listing: In this book, the autor pointing out exegetical fallacies of Young Earth Creationism, particulary The Creation Museum. Utilizing a clear language, he show the ANE context of severals passages in the Old Testament. Super recommended!!!
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  • Date published: 2020
  • Author: Gijsbert van den Brink
  • Article or Chapter Title
  • Resource Title: Reformed Theology and Evolutionary Theory
  • Publisher: Eerdmans
  • Link: Reformed Theology and Evolutionary Theory - Gijsbert Van Den Brink : Eerdmans
  • 50-ish word description: Gijsbert van den Brink’s book is for anyone interested in the theological implications of evolutionary theory. For the sake of argument, he assumes that the Darwinian account of evolution is true. He then asks what that would mean from a (Reformed) theological point of view. This book is a serious consideration of the three places where adjustments are needed in classical (Reformed) theology:
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  • Date accessed: 03/16/2022
  • Principal Editor: Edward N. Zalta
  • Resource Title: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Publisher: Stanford University
  • Link: https://plato.stanford.edu/
  • Blurb: This free website is an outstanding reference tool, geared toward uppe-level undergraduate readers and beyond. It includes entries for specific terms and concepts, philosophical periods and movements, and individual philosophers. As an encyclopedia, it includes excellent entry-level essays, providing the user a good overview to begin further enquiry. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy should not be mistaken for the actual study of philosophy.
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  • 2010-2016
  • Jonathan Baker
  • 100 reasons the earth is old
  • Age of Rocks (blog)
  • 100 Reasons the Earth is Old | Age of Rocks
  • A great collection of evidences and links for an old earth. The blog has been dormant for a few years, but there is still a lot of good information about geology, and it’s aimed at people who are approaching it from a YEC perspective.
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Podcasts I enjoy:
Biologos (of course)
Holy Post
The Russel Moore show
BEMA
BibleProject

I need to expand my horizons, and have more time to listen to podcasts, so open to suggestions.

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This is the book version of the Gifford Lectures NT Wright gave in 2018 and which are the subject of this thread.

  • 2019
  • N. T. Wright
  • History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology
  • Baylor University Press
  • Link
  • History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology represents the first Gifford delivered by a New Testament scholar since Rudolf Bultmann in 1955. Against Bultmann’s dehistoricized approach, N. T. Wright argues that, since the philosophical and cultural movements that generated the natural theology debates also treated Jesus as a genuine human being—part of the “natural world”—there is no reason the historical Jesus should be off-limits. What would happen if we brought him back into the discussion? What, in particular, might “history” and “eschatology” really mean? And what might that say about “knowledge” itself?
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One on literary type and point of Genesis 1:

Davidson, G. & Turner, K. J. (2021). The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One: A Multi-Layered Approach. Kregel Publications.

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