4 results for tag: Matt Lynch
Violence in the Hebrew Bible (Part 2) – Ecocide- Brad Jersak & Matt Lynch
In my discussions in Part 1 on Old Testament violence with author and friend of CWR, Dr. Matthew Lynch, the biblical connection between human violence and damage to the environment came up. The word that Matt used for this was ecocide. Just as the murder of a human is homicide or the murder of a father is patricide or the murder of God is deicide, the word ecocide links ecology (the environment) with murder.
The striking thing about biblical ecocide that it is not simply the murder of the environment, but the impact of human-vs-human violence on the land and its ability to sustain life. Matthew offered the ...
CWR Video: The Flood Story – by Matt Lynch
Dr. Matthew Lynch is Dean of Studies and Old Testament scholar at Westminster Theological Centre (UK).
CWR Video – God’s Holy Presence – by Matt Lynch
Short 5 minute video by Matt Lynch