[asa] Discussion on Christology and Science

David O. has on several occasions pointed to posts on Scot McKnight's Jesus
Creed blog, in particular posts by a regular guest RJS. Most of RJS's posts
are on science / faith issues; personally, I have found almost all of them
to be very helpful. Today, she started a series on Christology and
Science, reviewing themes raised in LeRon Shults' new book. The first post
- Christology and Science 1 <http://www.jesuscreed.org/?p=4246> definitely
resonates with me; I'd be very interested in others' response to the post.

RJS states that:

> Here is the big question for the church today – Consider it as you read on
> … Should we let our culture and our science reform our understanding of the
> nature of the incarnation and the nature of sin? If so – how?

Bingo. The big one in my opinion. (notice the verb is reform, not
reject). I'm not going to repeat everything here – I think the whole
article is worthwhile. But here is the ending of her first post:

> Shults says "The incarnation is not an emergency response to the sin of a
> primeval privileged pair, but a display of the eternal creative
> intentionality of God, in whose presence our responsibility emerges. The
> relational union of Christ with the divine Logos disclosed an eternal
> (perichoretic) interdependence in the life of God that the biblical
> tradition refers to as the relation of the Son to the Father in the Spirit"
> (p. 60). As such we do justice to the creator God by expressing our
> understandings of his act and his faithful tending of his creatures in light
> of the best "science" of our day as the early church fathers did in theirs.
>

thanks,

-- 
Steve Martin (CSCA)
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