Re: [asa] Science as Christian vocation

Ted,
No one else has taken the bait, so I'll give it a shot.? More questions than comments I'm afraid.

1.? Was Schmucker's theology influenced by the Mercersburg 'school' ?? There's only one ridge separating the valleys containing Gettysburg and Mercersburg.? The Lutheran/Reformed divide may have been a bigger impediment.

2.? How much of SCS's view of God as/in nature is truly classical liberalism and how much reflects Luther's traditional view that God is in, with, and under nature.? Kurt Hendel's article in the same issue of Sem. Ridge Rev. indicates just how much Luther's view of "finitum est capax infiniti" differs from the Reformed view.? I'm not trying to say that SCS wasn't a classical liberal, just that this aspect of Lutheran theology is easily misinterpreted.? Luther avoided pantheism and panentheism, but?was SCS not so conscious of the theological difficulty?

Any comments, or am I barking up the wrong tree.

Karl
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Karl V. Evans
cmekve@aol.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Davis <TDavis@messiah.edu>
To: asa@lists.calvin.edu
Sent: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 6:44 am
Subject: [asa] Science as Christian vocation

For the past few years, I've been researching the religious lives & beliefs
of several prominent American scientists from the Scopes trial era. The
latest issue of "Seminary Ridge Review," published by the Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, contains one of these: a study of how S
C Schmucker, a leading popularizer of evolution and eugenics, made science
education his Christian vocation. I hardly share his very, very liberal
theology, any more than I share his views on eugenics -- which I believe
were closely connected. The essay is now available online, at the journal's
web site.

http://www.ltsg.edu//db/review.htm?issid=23

Given the range of Schmucker's activities and the nature of his theological
views, perhaps this article would be good to discuss here?

Ted

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Received on Tue Feb 10 18:00:43 2009