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David C. Steinmetz
David C. Steinmetz taught at Duke Divinity School.
Unsettled issues: The Protestant-Catholic impasse
The broken communion evident at any eucharistic service is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible state of affairs.
Growing in grace
Mother Teresa’s spiritual struggles remind me of Martin Luther's.
Wide-angle historian: Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006)
Jaroslav Pelikan was not a historian easy to characterize. Most historians of Christianity pick some small subfield from the past, which becomes the focus of their research and writing....
Creator God: The debate on intelligent design
Christians, who confess that their God is the “Maker of heaven and earth” and the “Creator of all things visible and invisible,” support what looks for all the world like intelligent design. Christians have always brushed aside the notion that the world is a random concatenation of miscellaneous atoms thrown together by no one in particular and serving no purpose other than their own survival. The first article of the Christian creed could not be clearer: the world exists by the will of God.
What less conservative Christians are not committed to is the idea that intelligent design excludes the possibility of evolution.
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