Are they the same people?
Today, Israel refers to a nation, whose culture is Jewish and its language Hebrew; yet the Hebrews were a people, Israelite areligion and Jew, a race!
The extended family of Jacob (along with his servants and slaves) settled in the land of Goshen in Egypt…
The 2000 year spiritual journey from Abram to Jesus culminated in the Christian Church of the 4th century AD. During the past 4000 years since Abram’s migration from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the Bible is a recent form of God’s revelation.
19th century BC — Abram, a Mesopotamian trader and El…
The issue of recoveries from comas and vegetative states raise some important theological questions regarding the ethics and doctrines regarding life, death and existence in between.
In the past, death was registered when the cardio-vascular system fails. Today, it is brain-death that is more important, since we are now able…
Rationality is humanity’s most important survival strategy. It operates between different modes of knowledge and across different reasoning strategies. This makes interdisciplinary and cross-contextual conversation possible.
Why should Christian theology bother to engage across disciplines and contexts?
The Great Commission extends the Gospel across geohistorical borders of ancient Israel., i.e…
Today, I pay tribute to my teacher and friend, the late Professor Lamin Sanneh. He was a professor of history and World Christianity at Yale. …
WHY INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY IS CRUCIAL FOR THEOLOGY?
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CLAIM: People of faith who believe in God need history, philosophy & science to keep theology honest.
STATE OF AFFAIRS: Covid 19 has finally done what I was hoping decades of research and study would do — expose the deep problem of…
Human Origins, Genetics and the Illusion of Otherness
The interdisciplinary investigations in science and theology draw our attention to the illusion of otherness. Behind the geohistorical veil just 5500 years ago, we find a planet of 20 million humans with no known writing. This places our current preoccupation with textual…
We shall explore the anthropology, geology and biology of human evolution.
Paleoanthropology
Two scientific explanations for human origins exist — the punctuated and the gradualist models.
Ian Tattersall, a punctuationist, thinks symbolic behavior emerged from one chance mutation that suddenly and dramatically transformed the human mind.[1]Modern humans arrived from somewhere…
Six Questions about DIVINE REVELATION
The short answer is everything that is knowable. From as far back as historians can delve, the human mind has been learning new things. God’s revelation is not static and certainly continues. Religious dominance from the earliest times of shamanism around…
Abstract
John Duns Scotus’ (1266 -1308) contribution to the embryonic development of pre-modern science and its promise for a contemporary theology of science forms the thesis of this paper. …
