Purpose:
“I have written this book for my students, hopefully to help them avoid some of the snares that once entangled me. The reader must judge whether my argument succeeds, whether the following pages unfold naturally into a fan to produce a cooling breeze - or whether they should be crumpled and thrown into the fire!”
Worlds Apart is the only book on the hotly-debated topic of evolution published by the denominational press of the conservative Church of the Nazarene. The book was controversial and appeared over the objections of key Nazarene leaders. Since then, it has been used widely at various Nazarene and other evangelical colleges to counter fundamentalist approaches to origins.
August 1993
“Writing Worlds Apart was therapeutic for me. It allowed me to articulate my own concerns about the creationist assault on evolution while also letting me feel like I was helping counter the tendency of the Church of the Nazarene to slip slowly into fundamentalism and biblical literalism on the topic of origins. While it did provide me some therapy I don't know how effective it was on the latter agenda. What I do know is that the publication of Worlds Apart was vigorously opposed by some of the top leaders of the denomination, the General Superintendents. Nevertheless it was published and remains the only book on this topic put out by the denominational publishing house so it remains a sort of de facto statement of the position of the church. As a consequence it has been widely used in classes at the various Nazarene colleges.”
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H. Ray Dunning
Beacon Hill Press
$21.99
