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How I Changed My Mind About Evolution

Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science

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Pub Date Jun 13 2016 | Archive Date Jul 15 2016

InterVarsity Press | IVP Academic


Description

How I Changed My Mind About Evolution includes twenty-five personal essays from evangelical scientists, pastors, biblical scholars and theologians who have come to embrace both evolution and faith.

Perhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from the creation the book of Genesis celebrates.

Yet many evangelicals have come to accept the conclusions of science while still holding to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith?

Here are stories from a community of people who love Jesus and honor the authority of the Bible, but who also agree with what science says about the cosmos, our planet and the life that so abundantly fills it.
How I Changed My Mind About Evolution includes twenty-five personal essays from evangelical scientists, pastors, biblical scholars and theologians who have come to embrace both evolution and faith.

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Advance Praise

"This book captures the convictions and stories of an array of Christians whose scholarship, reflection, faith and community have brought them to affirm God's use of evolution in the processes of creation. Consider their stories. Ponder their convictions. May your journey too be one that fully opens to worshipful wonder and to scientific discovery."
—Mark Labberton, president, professor of preaching, Fuller Theological Seminary, author of Called

"This book should be embraced as a treasure. In it you will find unique minds wrestling with how we got here and what our evolutionary history has to do with God, the Bible and the depth of our lived experience. I promise this book will challenge you on nearly every page as you discover new insight after new insight."
—Andrew Root, Olson Baalson Associate Professor of Youth and Family Ministry, Luther Seminary, principal leader, Science for Youth Ministry

"This book captures the convictions and stories of an array of Christians whose scholarship, reflection, faith and community have brought them to affirm God's use of evolution in the processes of...


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