Daniel Deen and Joel Oesch: The Lutheran Voice and Crosswise Institute

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@Philosurfer

It isn’t that biology has much to say about Christ, but that Christ has everything to say about biology – not in practice necessarily, but perhaps in something like your ethos (not to be confused with our contemporary impoverished sense of ethics). Your epistemological ordering is centered on Christ and then flows outward to all other branches of knowledge. Correct me if I’m misrepresenting you. But, you had grasped the importance of what I take to be a key difference between Lutheran approaches to science and knew the discussion would be interesting to say the least.

Not at all. You are articulating it just as do I. For me theology must begin and end with Jesus, or we should wonder if it is actually Christian theology. He is the One who reorders my world. We’ve talked about this in the past too…

@Philosurfer

am very resistant to grounding conception of God in platonic or philosophical defiitions. God is not a worldview. He is not merely a “mind” or a “designer.” Instead, it seems central to our faith to ground our definiton and knowledge of God in Jesus .

This is music to my ears. I can’t even think of anything else to say, which in an uncomfortable position for a philosopher!

This is one of the ways Lutheran theology has been valuable to me. It has made sense of these crazy instincts to root things in Jesus. Even though I am not Lutheran, you have emboldened me.