Deus Misereatur

Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences Hans Madueme Baker Academic BakerAcademic.com ISBN: 9780801098000; May 2024; $36.99   It often feels weird to be part of something so old school as to actually believe that God specifically created all things out of nothing. Or that humankind is actually not part of a long and natural process of climbing upward out of a millions-of-years evolving framework. Especially when scientists assume it, academicians presume it, Psychologists accept it, and an increasing number of Christian scholars and theologians try hard to make it a suitable part of Christianity. Recently Hans Madueme has come to the aid of those of us who feel like we’re in the weird group with his 368-page paperback, “Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences”. Madueme is professor of theological studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and senior editor of Sapientia . This

  “ O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me .” O Mighty God, high and exalted, you are the greatest good, you are the utmost in integrity, and you are supreme over life and death. We acknowledge that humility is a waning virtue. In fact, thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought, we think ourselves mighty, magnificent and marvelous in our modern technologies, scientific advancements, social sensibilities, medical feats, and military competencies. All of this egoism surfaces in our national and international politics, foreign policies, and business ventures. Help us, in our communities and in our country, to remember that we are but human, and therefore “ surely all mankind is a mere breath ” (Psalm 39:5, 11)! That “ not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up, but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another ” (Psalm 75: