Daily Prayers:
- A. Book of Common Prayer
- A. Book of Common Prayer 2
- A. Divine Hours
- A. Evening Prayer (Anglican)
- A. Morning Prayer (Anglican)
- Celtic Prayer
- Creeds of Christendom
- Eastern Orthodox Prayers
- Lectionary
- Liturgy of the Hours
- Missio Dei
Emerging Movement:
- Andrew Jones
- Andrew Perriman
- Anthony Stiff
- Art Boulet
- Bob Robinson
- Br. Maynard
- Dan Kimball
- David Fitch
- Dogwood Abbey
- Ecclesia Network
- Emerging Women
- Eugene Cho
- Henrik Holmgaard
- Jamie Arpin-Ricci
- Jazz Theologian
- John Frye
- John Lagrou
- Jonny Baker
- JR Briggs
- Leonard Hjamarlson
- LeRon Shults
- Lukas McKnight
- Peggy Brown
- Sivin Kit
- Stephen Shields
- Steve McCoy
- Steve Taylor
- Tamara Buchan
- The Practicing Church
- Tim Miekley
- Todd Hiestand
- Tom Smith (RSA)
- Tony Jones
Other sites I frequent:
- Allan Bevere
- Andy Rowell
- Attie Nel
- Barna
- Brad Boydston
- Chris Ridgeway
- CC Blogs
- Don Johnson
- Ed Gilbreath
- Erika Haub (Carney)
- Faith Blogging
- Falsani
- Fr. Rob
- Hummers
- iMonk
- James McGrath
- Jim Martin
- John Stackhouse
- JR Woodward
- Karen Spears Zacharias
- Laura Barringer
- LaVonne Neff
- LeaderFOCUS
- LL Barkat
- Luke/Annika
- Mark Galli
- Mark Roberts
- Michael Kruse
- Nexus
- Owen Youngman
- Ted Gossard
- Tom Wright
Recommended Online Readings:
Scholarly Books I’ve written:
- Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
- Hist Jesus Anthology
- Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels
- Introducing NT Interpretation
- Jesus and His Death
- Jesus in Memory (ed.)
- New Vision for Israel
- Synoptics: Biblio
- The Face of New Testament Studies
- Who Do They Say I Am?
Scholarship Online:
- Apollos
- Books & Culture
- ChristianityToday
- CS Lewis
- EAC
- Early Xian Writings
- Euaggelion
- Gospels
- Jesus and His Death Blog
- Karl Barth Online
- Mark Goodacre’s Weblog
- Online Journals Access
- Online Pseudepigraph
- Pete Enns
- Prime Time Jesus
- Theopedia
- ThinkTank
Stuff online:
- 5 Streams
- Big Muddy
- Catalyst Scripture
- Catching the Wave
- DaVinci Code
- Forgiveness
- Future or Fad?
- Gospel of Judas
- High Calling
- Interview on Emerging
- Interview with LL Barkat
- IVCF Eikons
- IVCF Gospel
- John Bunyan
- Keys of the Kingdom
- Lake Emerging
- Mary in CT
- Missional in Seattle
- Missional Matrix
- Nativity Story
- Never Alone
- New Perspective
- Pepperdine Interview
- Professor as Scholar
- Recl Mind Mary 1
- Robust Gospel
- Social Justice
- Trojan Horse 2
- WiredParish Mary Interview
- Word/World NPP















posted September 2, 2009 at 7:45 am
The idea that God sustains – his action is not limited to specific discernible moments – is a key point.
Some views of Theistic evolution fall into a trap of deism, but so can any form of creation – including a YEC view.
The idea that God must intervene to make creation right at various points is even less palatable … the original course wasn’t correct so God nudges. Couldn’t God get it right the first time?
But God is creator and sustainer – intimately involved in the world past, present, future. In my mind the main point is that the idea of natural versus supernatural is misleading. The phenomena we explore and describe through science are not separate from God’s work – they are his work.
It seems to me though that supernatural is best seen in relationship – the relationship and interaction that God has with his people, individually and collectively.
posted September 2, 2009 at 9:43 am
It is interesting to look at Hebrews 1 and Colossians 1:17 in light of Walton’s ideas.
posted September 2, 2009 at 11:23 am
Scot, your summary makes it sound like Walton ties “theistic evolution” to deism, but that isn’t what he says.
He makes this statement about “some permutations of ‘theistic evolution’” (120). As RJS says, there would be some who fit that label but many others of us who would affirm God’s ongoing presence in and with natural processes, including evolutionary processes.
I think the major point in this section is that the often-made dichotomy where “natural processes” and God’s work are seen as mutually exclusive is a false one. That false dichotomy is at the root of the “god of the gaps” fallacy where gaps (failure of natural explanations for things like the development of life) are seen as theologically necessary because those gaps are the only place God is seen as really acting.
As Walton mentions, “creationist” views can also have deistic aspects. I have heard views of some ID proponents (this would not fit all of them, but for example Phil Johnson seemed to have this framework) described as “stroboscopic deism”, seeing nature as running on its own (with God absent) except on those occastions when God intervenes to intelligently tweak something.