Dru Johnson befasst sich mit biblischen und theologischen Studien und erforscht die komplexen Verbindungen zwischen Wissen, Ritual und Schrift. Seine Arbeit untersucht die philosophischen und theologischen Implikationen, die biblischen Texten innewohnen, und bietet den Lesern neue Perspektiven auf alte Weisheiten. Johnsons Ansatz in der analytischen Theologie versucht, zeitgenössische philosophische Ideen mit beständigen biblischen Traditionen zu verbinden. Durch sein Schreiben bietet er tiefe Einblicke, wie heilige Texte unser Verständnis von Welt und Glauben prägen.
The book of Genesis might be the most Darwinian text of the ancient world. Can the ideas of Scripture and evolutionary science be mutually illuminating? Biblical scholar Dru Johnson calls us beyond creation-versus-evolution debates to explore the continuities and discontinuities between biblical themes and those of Darwin and modern science.
Biblical Philosophy examines how the Christian Scriptures argue philosophically with ancient and modern readers alike. Demonstrating the distinct genetic markers of a philosophical style, the Hebrew Bible and New Testament employed literary and philosophical strategies to reason about the nature of reality and our place within it.
The opening chapters of Genesis tell the story of how humans relate to the world--and to God. Genesis 1-11 is a parade of humanity's stories intertwined with the most intriguing subjects wrestled with today: the beginning of the cosmos, the nature of humanity, family, sex, deceit, death, murder, mass murder, ecology, agriculture, urbanization, and more. In The Universal Story, Dru Johnson shows how Genesis 1-11 is written in a way that informs the rest of biblical history--including the exodus, the kings of Israel, the exile, the Gospels, and early church. Genesis 1-11 presents a story of humanity that seeks to explain the background of every human endeavor. It is the universal story--the story of stories--because it is a story about how all of these things came to be the way the Hebrews understood them to be. These bizarre and ancient stories frame the story of God and His plan for earth and humanity.