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The Great Divide: Christianity or Evolution

Publisher:
, 1988
ISBN: 0934874077
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Overview

Can the philosophy of evolution be combined with the teaching of the Bible? Does believing in theistic evolution make our Christian witness more reasonable to people in the modern world?

In The Great Divide, Gerard Berghoef and Lester DeKoster confront these and other questions. They write plainly and vigorously about the issues that are at stake for the Christian faith in its encounter with secular science. They force the reader to ask: What does the Bible really say?

Berghoef and DeKoster have deliberately avoided writing a technical treatise. Instead, they direct attention to the teaching of God’s Word and, in the light of this challenge, the theories of evolutionary philosophy and theistic evolution. If their claims are right then our own century is not only the most scientifically advanced of all time, but perhaps also the most deceived.

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Key Features

  • Analyzes the philosophy of evolution and theistic evolution
  • Examines the “SCIENCE” used by evolutionary theorizing
  • Includes a chart that lists some of the Genesis elements of the Plan of Redemption

Contents

  • Part One: The Plan of Redemption: Creation
    • “In the beginning . . .”
    • “And God said . . . ”
    • “Let there be light . . . ”
    • “Let us make man in our image . . . ”
    • “And man became a living soul . . . ”
    • “The rib . . . he made into a woman . . . ”
    • “And the two became one flesh . . . ”
    • “And behold, it was very good . . . ”
    • “And the evening and the morning . . . ”
  • Part Two: The Plan of Redemption: The Fall
    • “You shall not eat . . . ”
    • “You shall die . . . ”
    • “Against thee, thee only . . . ”
  • Part Three: The Plan of Redemption: Incarnation
    • “And the Word became flesh . . . ”
    • “Let him deny himself . . . ”
    • Genesis to Nicodemus
    • Jesus Confirms Genesis
  • Part Four: A Summing Up
    • “SCIENCE” In Capital Letters

About the Authors

Gerard Berghoef is the retired president of Widdicomb Furniture Company and a long-time elder in the Christian Reformed Church.

Lester DeKoster (1916–2009) was the director of Libraries and a professor of speech at Calvin College. He earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1964, after completing a dissertation on “Living Themes in the Thought of John Calvin: A Bibliographical Study.” After his retirement from Calvin College in 1969, DeKoster labored for a decade as the editor of The Banner, a weekly news magazine of the Christian Reformed Church. During this time DeKoster also launched, in collaboration with Gerard Berghoef and their families, the Christian’s Library Press, a publishing endeavor intended to provide timely resources both for the church’s laity and its leadership.

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  1. Ramsin Savra

    Ramsin Savra

    10/25/2019

    Greeting Steve, I can see your point, and it is valid and worth to be discussed. I consider myself a conservative Christian and observing the same dilemma in the center of the so-called "Christian" schools/seminaries. Two things, I need to add to this thread. 1) You are referring to a school of thought determined by culture. A culture that is influenced by the Western mindsets (philosophers and liberal theologians) since the 17th century. Furthermore, the individuals who fall for the Theistic Evolution e.g., BioLogos folks, are raised in this very context. Of course, we should not expect any better than this. Today, one barely finds Christians in "Christian" schools in the West to trust the Bible. There is a sense of shame among the student and professors who play safe (it will get worse). I see both cases. Either one comes from a Calvinistic view or Arminian theology. 2) The missing part by both scientists and theologians is that they all see the elephant in the room, but they do not speak about it. At least as someone who comes from the scientific background, the definition of what is science and what is not science has gone with the wind. Evolution cannot be observed directly or experimentally. We were taught this rational concept for decades now. It is all about the force behind it. The whole game is dominated by politic. A political affair supports the evolution today and rejecting of the evolution leads seminarians or scholar to fail in his/her academic career. More scholars will write in support of BioLogos and Evolution.
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  2. Hornstra, Wilrens

    Hornstra, Wilrens

    8/1/2019

    It makes no sense to republish a book from 1988 on a debate in which so much has happened since.
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  3. George Somsel

    George Somsel

    3/3/2016

    DeKoster was the head of the Hekman Library at Calvin when I was a student there. I have no way of knowing at the moment on which side of the divide he comes down since Calvin has always been somewhat open to the question and I never had a course with DeKoster (and he's a joint author).. I'm giving this a medium rating since I haven't yet read the work. Since the book details the biblical positions pertinent to the debate, I suspect that it might come down on the side of creationism, but that is simply a guess. The problem with detailing the biblical evidences is that they are dependent on the PRE-scientific positions of the authors of the scriptures who were not able to interact with scientific thought since it hadn't yet developed. I look forward to reading it. Personally, I come down on the side of more evolutionary views.
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