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“If we’re going to allow modern science to tell us what we can and cannot theologically affirm, then it doesn’t end with the discussion of whether or not there’s an historical Adam. It continues throughout the entirety of the body of Christian truth. And that is a disastrous route.”
MOHLER TALKS HUMAN ORIGINS ON NPR By Andrew Walker
MOHLER GIVES HIS TAKE AT CNN.COM By Josh Hayes
CNN’s Belief Blog published R. Albert Mohler Jr.’s column, “Are evangelicals dangerous?,” Sunday, Oct. 16. Since then, the comments section has witnessed significant activity, amounting to 75 pages in length at the time of this post. In the column, Mohler, Southern Seminary president, discusses American culture’s perception of evangelical Christians as a threat to the political process and overall health of the nation in view of the coming presidential election. As Mohler notes, some widely heard voices qualify evangelicalism as a movement of unenlightened social and theological conservatives driven toward overcoming democracy and instituting theocracy. He writes: If evangelicals intend to engage public issues and cultural concerns, we have to be ready for the scrutiny and discomfort that comes with disagreement over matters of importance. We have to risk being misunderstood - and even misrepresented - if we intend to say anything worth hearing.
R. Albert Mohler Jr. and Daniel Harlow discussed human origins on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation,” Sept. 22, 2011. Mohler, Southern Seminary president, and Harlow, a religion professor from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., discussed Adam and Eve’s literal existence and their importance to Christian theology. Harlow maintained that the life, death and resurrection of Jesus is central to Christianity and that the existence of Adam and Eve is not. In Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15, Harlow charged that Paul is not historicizing Adam as much as
The entire column is available at www. religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/15/ my-take-are-evangelicals-dangerous
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drawing on the larger theological narrative of Scripture. Mohler maintained that a false start to the Bible distorts the message of the Bible, and thus, it is essential that Adam’s literal existence be maintained. Mohler further emphasized that the dictates of science must be subordinated to theological claims of Scripture. “If we’re going to allow modern science to tell us what we can and cannot theologically affirm, then it doesn’t end with the discussion of whether or not there’s an historical Adam. It continues throughout the entirety of the body of Christian truth. And that is a disastrous route,” said Mohler. ____ The Sept. 22 “Talk of the Nation” episode is available at www.npr.org