Full disclosure: I read The Biblical Cosmos as soon as it came out and immediately put it to use in my introductory courses on the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. Hence, I am coming back to this text after seeing its impact on over a hundred college freshmen....
There is so much to enjoy about the The Biblical Cosmos: Robin Parry’s penchant for puns, his daughter Hannah’s illustrations, the spurious commendations, and his disarmingly light-hearted and winsome approach to what is really a weighty subject. I really did enjoy...
In the first volume of his Systematic Theology, the American Lutheran theologian Robert W. Jenson writes that “there is in a Copernican universe no plausible accommodation for the risen Christ’s body; and, indeed, within any modern cosmology, the assertion that the...
This is a wonderful and timely book that lays out some now-widely accepted views on the nature of the cosmos in biblical theology (especially the Old Testament), and reflections on their implications for Christian theology. The subject is one that has taken up much of...