4.9 Hans Madueme, David Schrock, Stephen Wellum • Interview • “Original Sin—Biological or Spiritual Problem?”

Timestamps to Know

• 00:31 – Intro
• 05:05 – The Genesis and Arguments of Defending Sin
• 08:07 – How Does Defending Sin Related to Adam the Fall, and Original Sin?
• 09:05 – What are Some Things We Need to Rightly Understand Between Creation and Science?
• 11:50 – What Does BioLogos Say About the Doctrine of Sin?
• 20:21 – The Shape of Redemptive History in Academia
• 23:25 – Why is it that We Should See Sin as a Spiritual Problem as Well as Biological?
• 29:07 – Traducianism and Creationism
• 33:28 – Why is It That Creationism is a Reformed View and Traducianism the Lutheran View?
• 34:58 – How Do We Deal With Predispositions Towards Certain Sins?
• 41:44 – The Transmission of Sin
• 47:34 – Desires Can Be Sinful
• 54:00 – How is the Doctrine of Sin a Practical Doctrine?
• 57:05 – Outro

Resources to Click

• “Original Sin -Biological or Spiritual Problem?” – Hans Madueme
• “Mea Culpa: An Apology for Original Guilt” – Hans Madueme
• “X-Linked Borderline Mental Retardation with Prominent Behavioral Disturbance: Phenotype, Genetic Localization, and Evidence for Disturbed Monoamine Metabolism” – H.G. Brunner
• “Mean Genes and the Biology of Agression: A Critical Review of Recent Animal and Human Research” – E. Balaban, J.S. Alper, Y.L. Kasaman
• “Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer” – Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
• “On Behalf of Augustinian Realism” – Oliver D. Crisp
• Theme of the Month: Whatever Happened to the Doctrine of Sin?
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Books to Read

• Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenge of Evolution and the Natural Sciences – Hans Madueme
• Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Conversation – eds. Erik Parens, Audrey R. Chapman, Nancy Press
• Sociobiology: The New Synthesis – E.O. Wilson
• Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism – ed. Karen King
• On the Soul and Its Origin – Augustine
• Revisions – Augustine
• The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church – Heinrich Schmid
• Dogmatic Theology – William G.T. Shedd
• Reformed Dogmatics – Herman Bavinck
• On Original Sin and A Disputation – Odo of Tournai and Irven M. Resnick
• Soma in Biblical Theology: With Emphasis on Pauline Anthropology – Robert H. Gundry
• Original Sin and the Fall: Five Views – J.B. Stump and Chad Meister
• “A Way Forward on the Question of the Transmission of Original Sin” by Marcus Johnson in Evangelical Calvinism: Essays Resourcing the Continuing Reformation of the Church – Myk Habets and Bobby Grow
• The Westminster Assembly: Reading Its Theology in Historical Context – Robert Letham
• Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin
• Pascal’s Pensées – Blake Pascal