[asa] New book out: Evolutionary Creation

Highlights are mine. Does anyone know of this author?

Evolutionary
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0718891910/ref=pe_5050_11305580_pe_snp_910
> Creation by
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5
Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Denis%20O%20Lamoureux
> Denis O Lamoureux

In this provocative book, evolutionist and evangelical Christian Denis O.
Lamoureux proposes an approach to origins that moves beyond the
evolution-versus-creation debate. Arguing for an intimate relationship
between the Book of Gods Words and the Book of Gods Works, he presents
evolutionary creation a position that asserts that the Father, Son and Holy
Spirit created the universe and life through an ordained and sustained
evolutionary process. This view of origins affirms intelligent design and
the belief that beauty, complexity and functionality in nature reflect the
mind of God. Lamoureux also challenges the popular Christian assumption that
the Holy Spirit revealed scientific and historical facts in the opening
chapters of the Bible. He contends that "Scripture features an ancient
understanding of origins that functions as vessel to deliver inerrant and
infallible messages of faith. Lamoureux shares his personal story and his
struggle in coming to terms with evolution and Christianity. Like many, he
lost his boyhood faith at university in classes on evolutionary biology.
After graduation, he experienced a born-again conversion and then embraced
belief in a literal six-day creation. Graduate school training at the
doctoral level in both theology and biology led him to the conclusion that
God created the world through evolution. Lamoureux closes with the two most
important issues in the origins controversy the pastoral and pedagogical
implications. How should churches approach this volatile topic? And what
should Christians teach their children about origins?

Ah ha - his other book: he's written with Phillip
<http://www.amazon.com/Darwinism-Defeated-Phillip-E-Johnson/dp/1573831336/re
f=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235013382&sr=1-2> Johnson: Darwinism
Defeated. So is this a move in position?

JP

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Received on Wed Feb 18 22:19:19 2009