From: Jonathan Clarke (jdac@alphalink.com.au)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 03:50:14 EDT
I shoudl also add that Tabor College in Adelaide, which is now broadly
evangelical, has charaistmatic roots. Among its staff is Mark Worthing, a
Templeton award winner. The association is caused Tabor some grief
at the moment,
with public attacks on them from AiG.
Jon
PASAlist@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 08/28/2002 10:27:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> douglas.hayworth@perbio.com writes:
>
> << I would be very interested to know there exists people who are at the same
> time practicing charismatics (for lack of a better term) and evolutionists
> (also for lack of a better term). For example, does anyone know an
> evolutionary biologist who is an active member of an Assembly of God
> church? I would like to think that such people do exist, even if they are
> rare. >>
>
> As Jon mentioned most charismatics are not sufficiently educated
> scientifically to espouse evolution, and are therefore generally YECs. At the
> same time, there are some who are both charismatic and believers in
> evolution, such as Denis Lamoureaux who has one Ph.D in theology and another
> one in evolution (of the jaw in particular). It is primarily a matter of
> education, but at the same time it is my experience that those with a
> fundamentalistic theology who are more experience-oriented in their
> Christianity (which is more common amongst charismatics) are not as prone to
> be upset by interpretations of Genesis which do not hold to a rigid
> literalistic view. I think this goes back to whether God or a book is
> ultimate for them on a practical level. I know that John Whitcomb said that
> his next priority after promoting creation science was to attack the tongues
> movement. So, there seems to be some kind of correlation between
> openness/closedness to evolution and openness/closedness to
>charismatic gifts.
>
> Paul.
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