The Advancement: Keeping the Faith in an Evolutionary Age
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The Advancement unapologetically presents the biblical solution as the only satisfactory worldview for modern life in contrast to the naturalistic worldview that dominates thought today. A unique Christian apologetic approaching Darwinian naturalism from a history-of-ideas perspective, Bush argues that progress and advancement are better metaphors to characterize the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century than the term postmodern. The illusion of spiritual progress is now no truer than it was during the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century.
Top Highlights
“The correct worldview is the one that does not contradict, misunderstand, or deny any part of reality.” (Page 85)
“The assumption that currently observable processes must be uniformly applied to the geological history of the earth is known as uniformitarianism.” (Page 26)
“First, it is assumed that physical similarity among living beings is an indication of a historical biological linkage.” (Page 66)
“What modern secular scientists believe is far more incredible than any biblical miracle accepted by the simple Christian believer.” (Page 29)
“Fourth, the necessary source of codes and information retrieval systems is precisely what is not found in nonliving matter.” (Page 82)
- Title: The Advancement: Keeping the Faith in an Evolutionary Age
- Author: L. Russ Bush
- Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
- Publication Date: 2003
- Pages: 160
L. Russ Bush is academic dean and professor of Christian Philosophy at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary at Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is also a former president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society and a former president of the Evangelical Theological Society. He is the author of Classical Readings in Christian Apologetics, Handbook for Christian Philosophy, and co-author of Baptists and the Bible, available from Logos as part of the Broadman & Holman Baptist History Collection (11 Vols.).
Reviews
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James Doyle Moore
2/13/2020
If you are interested in apologetics, you need this book in your library. The author's breadth of knowledge is astounding.
Ray Murray
4/27/2018
Rokvet
2/2/2018
