Ryan M. Reeves (PhD Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Twitter: / ryanmreeves Instagram: / ryreeves4
I come from an extreme form of fundamentalism. I spent my life trying to find the"truth"". If I would have know these basics it would have saved me years. Now I sit in my Church every Sunday seeing where the message is going. I find it sad and enlightening at the same time. God Bless!
I enjoy your lectures Ryan Reeves! It would be great if you could suggest a sequential order that one might logically start at and continue and a full list of your lectures cheers Peter
Excellent presentation. Uniformitarianism, Darwin and the like also stand on the shoulders of the enlightenment deist which was a hangover from the devastation of the Thirty Years War which came out of the Reformation and so on and so on. What an interesting song God sung to put it in a Tolkienesk turn of phrase.
I would have bet money that your lecture would begin with Friedrich Schleiermacher and the book, "On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers". Was missing it a function of condensing 100 years into a 20 minute lecture?
Yeah that's essentially it. I tend to avoid genealogies that say X started because someone hundreds of years ago said this or that. It's not always bad, but in a short lecture I find that method confuses as much as it helps. So in this I drop 'in media res' and just describe the version of Liberalism that arose in the 1800s and shove off from there. I am working up a history of philosophy course, too, so in there Schleiermacher would make a grand appearance, for sure. :)
As an agnostic, having no knowledge of any creationist literature, I rejected macroevolutionary mythology 46 years ago; and remained an agnostic for more than a year afterwards. Now I am a US professor of medicine and biochemistry who keeps his belief hidden from the modern Scientism Inquisition and am more convinced than ever. Tension between Science and Scripture has never been a concern for me. I can easily be a believer in an old earth and a Christian. I can not believe the earth is more than 10,000 years old and remain rational about the scientific facts I know, such as genetic entropy. Lyell lied, his data on Niagra falls has been demonstrated not just to be in error, but a deliberate fraud.
