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0111 In chapter 9, Ross confronts Christians who exalt grace3c<\/sub> over nature3c<\/sub>.  He calls it “hard concordism”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or course, this is Ross’s audience.  God bless them.  Many know that their “models” for so-called “Creation Science” have certain weaknesses, the greatest of which is the complete rejection of modern scientific inquiry<\/em>.  Ross does not want that.  He aims for a Biblical model that bridges the separation that everyone has agreed upon.  Ross’s audience knows that this is a more sensible path.  So, they keep him in business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0112 In chapter 9, Ross confronts Christian theologians who exalt nature3c<\/sub> over grace3c<\/sub>.  He calls it “soft concordism”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, these are the theologians who get grants from foundations interested in… well… finding the right academic voices who will speak “truth” for “power” (or something like that).  These theologians are experts in the cultures and languages of the ancient Near East.  These theologians have a model for explaining the Creation Story.  The first chapter of Genesis depicts the construction of the temple<\/em> (or tent) of the heavens and the earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0113 In chapter 9, Ross challenges both exaltations, by proposing what he calls<\/em> “a moderate concordism”.  It is sort of like the Goldilocks fairy tale.  He seeks a concordism that is not too hard, not too soft, and feels just right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He uses, as an example, Job 9.8.  God alone stretches out the heavens.  He calls it a poetic image<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0114 Just hold that thought, while I bring up artistic concordism’s empirio-schematic once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder where the word “image” appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, there it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is one of Peirce’s three types of natural signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0115 Let me go over these three types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a sign-relation, a sign-vehicle (SV) stands for a sign-object (SO) in regards to a sign-interpretant (SI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An icon is a sign-relation whose sign-object (SO) manifests on the basis of similarity, images, pictures, and other characteristics of the category of firstness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An index is a sign relation whose sign-object (SO) manifests on the basis of pointing, indicators, contact, cause and effect, and other characteristics of the category of secondness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A symbol is a sign-relation whose sigh-object (SO) manifests on the basis of habit, convention, tradition, law, and other characteristics of the category of thirdness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0116 Ross offers an exercise in artistic concordism by identifying Job 9.8 as an icon.  The icon provides a “poetic” or “artistic” image of its referent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0117 In chapter 10, Ross notes that Reasons To Believe<\/em> is not the only game in town.  Sure, Christianity seems to be fixed in their consensus that “grace” and “nature” are distinct and separate. Yes, all traditional churches1b<\/sub> and modern positivist institutions1b <\/sub>are <\/sub>stuck in a relation<\/em> (secondness) that they no longer recognize might not be… um… fruitfully “conjunct”.  But, the Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and certain Jesus-loving cults are not so constrained.  They harbor full-fledged concordists, who link their scriptures to scientific discoveries with… a sense of aesthetic abandon.  Outside of Ross’s brand of concordism, which I consider “artistic”, rather than “moderate”, there are few constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0118 They are all saying the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our scriptures<\/em> contain signs of God’s natural world, as revealed in scientific models.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why can’t Ross say the same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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