Summary Of L. Russ Bush's The Advancement

Introduction The world is rapidly changing. Technology changes every few months, ever advancing people to new things that were unimaginable only a few decades ago. Changes in business models, distance education methods, and media platforms have shaped the society. However, there are other things that have seemed to change as well. Relativism has replaced objective truth and objective morality. The Bible is viewed as just an outdated religious book with little to offer for today’s world. Philosophy has said, “God is dead.” Science has said “God is impossible and cannot exist. Only natural order can explain things.” L. Russ Bush, in his book The Advancement: Keeping the Faith in an Evolutionary Age, attempts to explain from where this shift in philosophical, scientific, and, in some cases, theological shift came. Through his book, Bush defines the shift from absolute truth to relative truth, from objective morality to relative morality, from the Creator to the process, “the Advancement.” Bush uses his book as a medium to argue that the Advancement is not sound and should not be accepted by Christians.
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Bush begins by stating the question that needs to be answered: “Where did this new approach to life [the …show more content…
Through this, Bush gives his readers an up-front understanding that these two views cannot work together. One adheres to one or the other, for they are not compatible with each other. With such a contrast to set the stage for his argument, Bush can move next to the tracing the rise of the Advancement throughout history. Beginning with the Christian foundations for science, Bush explain that scientist slowly moved away from its Christian foundations. Through giving the readers a look into the key figures of what would later be termed “the Advancement” by Bush, Bush does an excellent job at tracing the rise of the