RE: [asa] new book on patristic doctrine of creation

Is Columbia University Pupin Hall, which houses the physics department, named after Michael I. Pupin?

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/pupin.html

Moorad

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu on behalf of Ted Davis
Sent: Mon 6/23/2008 1:24 PM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: [asa] new book on patristic doctrine of creation

A new book has just appeared that looks like an interesting collection of
primary sources on theology of creation. Here are the details:

http://www.erasmuspress.net/Publications.html

Erasmus Press is, apparently, a new press launched by Bill Dembski, who is
one of the editors of this book. Another of the editors is an Orthodox
priest. That's interesting in itself, but Bill did have a short period some
time ago when he was involved with the Orthodox faith. I find aspects of
that faith attractive myself, particularly their emphasis on the
Incarnation. I learned a little about Orthodox approaches to creation when
I wrote an essay on Michael Idvorsky Pupin, a Serbian-American physicist who
was a household name 70 years ago but has mainly been forgotten. Pupin
wrote quite a bit about science & faith from an orthodox and subtly Orthodox
perspective during the turmoil of the Scopes era--stuff that Bryan and his
friends probably just ignored as unhelpful or irrelevant. But, it was good.
 And a Serbian film maker is now doing a documentary about him.

This new book is obviously not about Pupin or even about the modern period.
 But the patristics always have something to teach us, and I welcome it.

Ted

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Received on Mon Jun 23 14:49:01 2008