Differences within EC... Classic Providential Naturalism?

[Casper_Hesp]

Hi Jon, thank you for your gracious response. I understood the manifesto was published two years ago, and that much could have shifted in the meantime. However, I also assumed that your belief statement would have been updated if attitudes had changed significantly by now.

I suppose that “distancing” would be too strong of a word for it, but BioLogos does seem to have made clear on multiple occasions that they are not identifying themselves with the positions of those who were part of it in the past. For example, in the discussion under the post on Nanotechnology, @jstump said the following in a discussion with @Eddie:

@jstump

So I think we’d make some further headway on our disagreements if when you’re objecting to “BioLogos” you’d confine that to the people who are actually part of BioLogos now (unless you’re addressing history). These include the staff members, our Board of Directors, and members of the Advisory Council. These people don’t agree on every point, but they are the only people who have publicly identified with BioLogos and with whom BioLogos has publicly identified. I don’t mean this in the silly “distance ourselves from our founder” way that these guys tried to spin it, just that we are an organization that develops (and adapts?!) over time.

I like the things you’re saying on the relationship between historic Christian doctrines and developments in current science, philosophy, and theology. If you have any crucial readings that you would like to recommend, I’d be happy to hear about it.

@Jon_Garvey

But since there are big gaps in what it is interested in publishing as articles (as opposed to the merry anarchy of the comments board), it’s hardly fair to criticise us for making such stuff available to serious thinkers elsewhere.

Far be it from me to criticize such initiatives. Keep it up!