Christadelphian Participants, Commentators, Authorities
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The annotated list on this page is a work in progress.
See also the automated Mediawiki "category" Christadelphians Cited, which lists approximately 70 individuals, and has three sub-categories: Christadelphian Publishers, Ecclesias and Committees and Magazines and Web pages.
Many non-Christadelphian commentators and authorities cited in this wiki are listed here.
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Old Earth Creationists
- Creation not evolution: How can we defend miracles in a scientific age?
- Creation not evolution: The “Bad Design” Argument
- Creation not evolution: Amazing Creative Designs
- Creation NOT Evolution: Does the Bible teach Adam was the first man? appears to be missing. There is this URL, though! :— https://christadelphianvideo.org/document/why-christadelphians-believe-in-creation-and-not-theistic-evolution-gods-method-of-creation-in-the-bible/ which offers a PDF on another broken link, GDE_Bible_BASF_23June2016-1.pdf. The page also contains a 40 thousand word essay, about which we may attempt "dialog" here — though as with other Christadelphians who claim to speak for all of us, the attempt will probably be fruitless. (In fact it's only 23 pages or so of essay followed by extensive appendices, so it might be feasible!)
founding editor of The Christadelphian Magazine
- Alan Hayward, author of God Is, Creation and Evolution - the Facts and Fallacies
- Islip Collyer
- L G Sargent, editor of The Christadelphian Magazine who defended non-literal interpretations of Genesis
- C. C. Walker (1856–1940),editor of The Christadelphian Magazine from 1898 to 1937, wrote editorially in favour of The "Gap Theory" and strongly against The 7,000 Year Plan. An extract is at Beliefs re the Age of the Earth.
- Robert Roberts, Alan Hayward, L G Sargent, C. C. Walker, Michael Ashton, Alfred Norris, John Carter, and H. P. Mansfield argued for Monogenism. Unverified extracts from their writings are at Christadelphian Writers in Support of Monogenism.
Young Earth Creationists
- Bro Ron Abel, author of Wrested Scriptures
- Bro Jonathan Bowen (YEC?)
- Brethren Mark Alfree and Matthew Davies from Nottingham Forest Road Ecclesia, England, have assembled into a book entitled The Deception of Theistic Evolution their side of some discussion on Facebook in 2015 and 2016. It is available for free download here. See below for a response by the Christadelphians Origins Discussion group.
Evolutionary Creationists
- Brother David Brown's website outlines a vision for a thriving Christadelphian community literate in both Bible and Science, with no need to choose between them
- Brother Ken Gilmore blogs at Evolutionary Creationism: A Christadelphian Perspective. His story, as he tells it, is here. He responds in detail to many public-facing Christadelphian criticisms of evolution, for example:
- A six part Part 1 response to Bro Ron Abel’s arguments against evolution in Wrested Scriptures.
- A 14 part response to Bro Stephen Palmer's talks (not a debate) entitled "The Great Creation Vs Evolution Debate" — here.
- Regular responses to non-scientific claims made on the Christadelphian Answers website.
- Christadelphians Origins Discussion, an anonymous group of Evolutionary Creationists, has a blog here. Their extensive paper The Raqia: A Rejoinder to Allfree & Davies is published here.
- A group of Christadelphians including Rick Brower, Nat Ritmeyer, Daniel Edgecombe, Jon Burke and others blogs at living-faith.org with a scholarly approach that is generally EC-friendly.
- Brother Rick Brower is author of The Enigma of Creation
- Brother Mike Pearson's book The Fourth Conversation is here in this wiki.
Professional Historian
- Brother Stephen Snobelen
Prominent Ancient Near East scholar
Brother Wilfred G. Lambert (1926 – 2011)
- His Festschrift, “produced through the desire to do real honour to a great teacher, a magnificent scholar, and one of the world’s most brilliant Assyriologists”
- British Academy obituary
- From Creation to Apocalypse: Reading the Bible with Wilfred G. Lambert — a paper by Victor Avigdor Hurowitz delivered at a mini-conference held in his memory at the Hebrew University.
- Wikipedia entry with partial bibliography
- Obituary in the London Telegraph
For more of his legacy, including writings for Christadelphians, see Wilfred Lambert.
Academic Geographer
- Brother Alan Eyre wrote an open letter in 2015 in response to the campaign against evolution in various Christadelphian publications. This is reproduced here so that it can be linked within our wiki.
Others of Relevance
- Brother George Booker is a North American Christadelphian who has written on fellowship and faith. Some of his work is at Christadelphian Books Online, particularly What are the First Principles? and Biblical Fellowship.
- Brother Alan Fowler
- Brother Roger Evans, whose book-length essay Genesis in Context, A personal review of the first eleven chapters of Scripture is being incorporated in this wiki.
- Brother Peter Heavyside (q.v. for his self-published book offering a "harmonised and historical reading" of Genesis 1-2)
- Christadelphian Answers usually focussed on polemicising against evolution with a high proportion of pseudoscience. Responses from Ken Gilmore are linked from this page.
- Bro Stephen Palmer is a retired epidemiologist who preaches publicly against evolution (for example here) but accepts Microevolution.
— Bruce
- Brother David P. Levin, author of The Creation Text, studies in early Genesis The Christadelphian Tidings Publishing Company, 2011
