From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Sat Sep 28 2002 - 19:57:37 EDT
Tomorrow is the festival of St. Michael and All Angels in the Western church
Preparation for this got me to thinking that it might provide a
refreshing change of
discussion topic from interminable debates about design, flood, &
whether event X really
happened.
If one believes that angelic beings in scripture are not
simply literary devices
or theological metaphors (though they are those things in some cases)
then it's natural
to ask how, as part of God's creation, their relationships with the
physical world are
to be understood. How would we talk about angels in the context of modern
science-theology dialogue?
Such a discussion should, of course, pay serious attention to
what scripture
does & does not enable us to say about angelic beings.
Shalom,
George
-- George L. Murphy gmurphy@raex.com http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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