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Ronald Osborn

Open a window: Fundamentalism and the thoughtful heretic

June 21, 2014 by Randal

A couple weeks ago I wrote “When is a fundamentalist a fundamentalist?” to explain how I use the term “fundamentalist”. With that background in mind I wanted to turn now to offer a critique of the way fundamentalism is inimical to the open society of free enquiry and mutual truth-seeking. In particular, I want to say […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evangelical, fundamentalism, heresy, Karl Barth, orthodoxy, Ronald Osborn, Rudolf Bultmann

Ronald E. Osborn against the idea of a global flood

May 28, 2014 by Randal

Last week I reviewed Ronald E. Osborn’s book Death Before the Fall.  Given the relatively eclectic nature of the book, I was unable to interact with some themes and interesting ideas that appear in the book. So I am going to be writing a few supplementary posts highlighting some of those additional aspects of the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Genesis, global flood, Ronald Osborn, young earth creationism

You can’t judge a book by its cover: A Review of “Death Before the Fall”

May 21, 2014 by Randal

Ronald E. Osborn. Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014. This book suffers from a serious identity crisis. On the face (that is, the cover) of it, the book purports to provide an in-depth theological analysis of the problem of natural evil generally and animal […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: animal suffering, creationism, evolution, fundamentalism, hermeneutics, natural evil, review, Ronald Osborn, theodicy, theology

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