Comments (1) A quote to begin the Sabbath:
The ancient rabbis teach that on the seventh day, God created menuha—tranquility, peace, and repose—rest, in the deeper possible sense of fertile, healing stillness. Until the Sabbath, creation was unfinished. Only after the birth of menuha, only with tranquility and rest, was the circle of creation made full and complete.
- Wayne Muller, Sabbath. p. 37
Social Darwinism
There’s a debate raging in the Seventh-day Adventist Church about creation vs. evolution, particularly as its taught in higher education, e.g. La Sierra University. I am not about to get into that issue here.
I am presenting a theology of justice tomorrow at CrossWalk U. titled, “Justice Isn’t a Four Letter Word”. In preparing, I came across an idea in N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church. Wright points out an irony in the creation vs. evolution debate. Keep in mind Wright isn’t talking about Seventh-day Adventists specifically.
The irony is that those American churches that protest most vocally against the teaching of Darwinism in their schools are often, in their public policies, supporting a kind of economic Darwinism, the survival of the fittest in world markets and military power.- N.T. Wright
Surprised by Hope, p. 219-220
So my question: If the church won’t “flinch” in our stand for creation, will we be consistent? If we stand against Darwinism, will we stand against it in all forms, even social Darwinism? If not, it seems to me our convictions about creation have little real world significance other than a house of cards, propping up our beliefs.
A quote to begin the Sabbath:
He was not able to rest until the seventh day because the creation was not completed until the end of the sixth day. The world, once it was made, was not complete in the sense that it was “done” or “finished.” It was complete because it was whole. Its maker had so filled it with living creatures so invested with his spirit and breath that it could keep on working, it could live on its own, while he rested. It was an active and ongoing wholeness. It was a wholeness that could adapt and change’ it could “evolve”, as you may say if you wish. That too.
-Wendall Berry
Foreward to Living the Sabbath
by Norman Wirzba, p. 12
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