The Evolution of Belief: A Christian Perspective for the Future
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The Dalai Lama once said that when science demonstrates something in opposition to a religious tenet, the religious belief must step back. Yet Christianity has often been resistant to such an approach, and many modern, educated Christians find themselves stuck at the intersection of science and traditional religious dogma and doctrine.
The Evolution of Belief provides new ways of thinking about essential items of Christian belief, and the modern Christian is invited to move ahead in a credible way with the use of new analogies applied to creation, incarnation, redemption, and other Christian beliefs and practices. Author J. Gregory Steiner shows how a so-called baggage of beliefs, hung on the clothesline of ones faith, needs to be continually cleaned out and rejuvenated, insisting that traditional understandings of Christianity should be made more palatable and accommodating of the discoveries of science and technology.
Viewed from an ever-developing saga of historical influences upon Christian belief and the evidence provided by science, there could very well be more questions generated than answers. But this can result in a positive experience, because credible insights into this novel perspective will truly lead ones faith further into the unending discovery of God.
J. Gregory Steiner
J. Gregory Steiner, a former Jesuit for nineteen years, earned postgraduate degrees in biology and theology, and taught science and religion at the high school level. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Having been retired for twenty-five years, he has focused his senior years on inviting Christians to re-examine outdated doctrines and dogmas of the Christian church in a new way. His first book, Evolution of Belief (2018), is a scientific analysis of the development of Christian belief over two thousand years.
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