On the “Jesus Creed” blog, RJS posted the final blog entry of a series on Peter Enns’s The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins.
In a post titled “So How Then Should We Think About Adam?,” RJS concludes:
“The last two paragraphs of the concluding chapter are in many ways the best part of the book, a confession of faith and a vision of hope for the future. Buy the book to read them (and the rest). The Evolution of Adam is not the last word on any of the questions of Adam, evolution, sin, or death. But it is an important contribution to the discussion.”
In case you missed it, the good folks at ‘Homebrewed Christianity’ posted a podcast interview with Peter Enns on The Evolution of Adam. It is a great discussion, and you can listen to the entire thing here.
Speaking of good folks, The Englewood Review of Books posted a review of The Evolution of Adam. Read it here.
Recently featured in the Patheos.com Book Club, Arthur Boers’s Living Into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions has garnered a lot of attention. Here are some recent blog reviews:
Kurt Willems – “Watching Our Distractions”
“Happy Little Homemaker” Blog - ‘Living Into Focus {Book Review}’
Carl Gregg – “‘Sorry I’ve Been Busy!’ How to Bring Your Life Back Into Focus”
Cross-Shattered Christ Giveaway
Congratulations to Chad Shively, Vanessa Small, C.C. Almon, Keith Clark, and Emily Plovick – they have each won a copy of Stanley Hauerwas’s Cross-Shattered Christ.
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The Weekly Hit List: May 4, 2012
“The more difficult task, however, and the one that Boers’s book mostly succeeds in provoking, is to look long and hard at ourselves, at the objects that command our attention and at the practices that make up our days. And then, after he holds up a mirror for us for a little while, Boers asks us the essential, if no longer new, questions: When do we rule our gadgets and when do they rule us? When does technology improve our lives and when does it bankrupt them? What habits might help us manage the omnipresent allures of a technological age? And what can we do if we find ourselves walking around with devices that are not, in the deepest sense of the word, working?”
Quick Hits:
The May 2012 issue of the Brazos Press newsletter, Border Crossings, has released and is available. To receive future issues in your inbox, click here to subscribe.
Peter Enns (author of The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins) was interviewed on Christian.co.uk for what he “thinks about Adam and why it matters one way or the other.”
Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good was reviewed by Tony Dickinson.
David G. Benner’s Spirituality and the Awakening Self: The Sacred Journey of Transformation was featured in the May list of resources in The Mennonite: “Benner shows that the transformation of self is foundational to Christian spirituality.”
Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture was reviewed by Charlie Dean on his blog. “If you think deeply about faith, theology and particularly the Bible, you’ll really want to read this book – and better yet, discuss it with a few people.”
Nathaniel Claiborne reviewed Proverbs & Ecclesiastes (part of the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series) by Daniel J. Treier on his blog.