Directory of Denominational Views Resources

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This category is for position papers or church documents about creation which have been approved by denominations. Some Christian denominations have explicitly stated that an evolutionary interpretation of biological diversity is incompatible with their interpretations of Christianity. Others indicate that an evolutionary perspective towards the material world is generally compatible with their interpretations of Christianity.

Subcategories

• Seventh-day Adventist Views

Resources in This Category

• Evolution and the Roman Catholic Church

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_and_the_Roman_Catholic_Church
  Wikipedia article on the official Church's position which states that faith and scientific findings regarding human evolution are not in conflict, supported by statements of a number of Popes.

• Humani Generis, 1950

  http://academic.regis.edu/mghedott/humanigeneris.htm
  This is the papal encyclical by Pope Pius XII,that states that Catholics are free to accept evolutionary explanations for biological diversity and the origin of the human body. The letter neither endorses nor condemns an evolutionary perspective.

• Resolution On Scientific Creationism

  http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/967
  A resolution on the official website of the Southern Baptist Convention.

• The Origins of Life: An Evangelical Baptist View

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4760816
  R. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes that views of Evangelical Christians and secularists are incompatible.

• Truth Cannot Contradict Truth

  http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_jp02tc.htm
  Pope John Paul II's statement about evolution and faith, on October 22, 1996, to the Pontifical Academy of Science. How God's revealed truth can be harmonized with scientifically observed truth.

 

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