Whither Sin? Whither Grace? (2009)
Originally published as a Facebook Note May 17, 2009. I have been blissfully complacent about the extent to which I have a theology, and the extent to which said theology can be challenged by Darwin. I've found that, the less I try to reduce religion to a series of true-false statements, the better I get along with God, so I thought I had come to an 'anti-theology' theology, which was about as minimalist and accommodating as you could possibly be while still taking religion seriously (see one of my previous notes). I have also managed to get along with Charles Darwin throughout my life. It is interesting to speculate how I would have dealt with Darwin 150 years ago. If I had been born 150 years earlier than I already was, I would have been about my present age when The Origin of Species was published. Could I have accommodated Darwin into my worldview? But I was born into liberal theology, and have not had to struggle with that. Then along came two books, both about...