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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20REFORMATA%20TRANSYLVANICA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   SEVERAL THEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE CREATION VS. EVOLUTION DEBATE.

Authors:  VISKY SÁNDOR-BÉLA.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  

“We shall lament the blindness of those who only allow the validity of tradition in physics instead of reason and experiment; we shall be horrified at the error of those who in theology put the arguments of reason in place of the tradition of Scripture and the Fathers.” (Blaise Pascal)

The theory of creation-evolution can be defined from the following twenty points of view:The interpretation of the Bible, genres1.The God of deliverance; God, the Creator2.The Bible and the scientific world view of the age: acceptance3.The Bible and the philosophy-world view of the age: resistance4.The Reformed standpoint about the freedom of science, the relationship of 5. the book of Genesis and natural scienceThe ideological aspect6.The theory of creation versus the theory of evolution as a cultural war7.Overcoming Darwinism by the methods of common sense8.Do we need to distingush between the domains of faith and science? Yes!9.Can we separate the two domains? No!10.Mutual violation of frontiers11.Is God present in the missing links?12.The time of evolution into Man - in a historical/biological sense 13.The time of evolution into Man – for the theology14.How does the theory of evolution affect the theological thinking?15.The standpoint of the Catholic church16.The Protestant standpoint17.The Greek-orthodox standpoint18.The standpoint of the methodist-neoprotestant-evangelical churches19.Ending: the patience of faith20.

Keywords: freedom of science, faith and science, Darwinism and Christianity – a cultural war, God and the missing links, standpoint of the churches.

 
         
     
         
         
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