Creation and Doxology: The Beginning and End of God's Good World (Center for Pastor Theologians Series)

What does it mean to both affirm the goodness of God's creation and anticipate the new creation? Bringing together contributions from church leaders, academic theologians, and scientists on the doctrine of creation, this volume engages with Scripture, scientific theory, church history, and current issues to help Christians understand the beginning and ending of God's good creation. Acknowledgments Introduction: In Praise of Beauty: The Native Connection Between Creation and Doxology (Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson) Part I: The Doctrine of Creation Expressed 1. Reading Genesis 1 with the Fourth Commandment: The Creation Week as a Calandar Narrative (Michael LeFebvre) 2. Galaxies, Genes, and the Glory of God (Deb Haarsma) 3. Mere Creation: Ten Theses (Most) Evangelicals Can (Mostly) Agree On (Todd Wilson) 4. All Truth Is God's Truth: A Defense of Dogmatic Creationism (Hans Madueme) Part II: The Doctrine of Creation Explored 5. Is the World Sacramental? Ontology, Language, and Scripture (Jeremy Mann) 6. Irenaeus, the Devil, and the Goodness of Creation: How Iranaeus's Account of the Devil Reshapes the Christian Narrative in a Pro-terrestial Direction (Gerald Hiestand) 7. Wendell Berry and the Materiality of Creation (Stephen Witmer) 8. Creation, New Creation, and the So-Called Mission of God (John Walton) Part III: The Doctrine of Creation Practiced 9. Intellectually Frustrated Atheists and Intellectually Frustrated Christians: The Strange Opportunity of the Late-Modern World (Andy Crouch) 10. It All Begins in Genesis: Thinking Theologically about Medicine, Technology, and the Christian Life (Paige Comstock Cunningham) 11. Justice, Creation, and New Creation: In Christ All Things Hold Together (Kristen Deede Johnson) 12. Creation, Theology, and One Local Church in Southern California (Gregory Waybright) Contributors Author Index Subject Index Scripture Index The doctrine of creation is crucial to the Christian faith, but it has often been maligned, misinterpreted, or ignored. Some, such as pagan philosophers and Gnostics, have tended to denigrate the goodness of the material world. More recently, new questions have emerged regarding human origins in light of the Darwinian account of evolution. What does it mean today to both affirm the goodness of God's creation and anticipate the new creation? The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT) seeks to assist pastors in the study and production of biblical and theological scholarship for the theological renewal of the church and the ecclesial renewal of theology. Based on the third annual CPT conference, this volume brings together the reflections of church leaders, academic theologians, and scientists on the importance—and the many dimensions—of the doctrine of creation. Contributors engage with Scripture and scientific theory, draw on examples from church history, and delve into current issues in contemporary culture in order to help Christians understand the beginning and ending of God's good creation. Based on annual CPT conferences, the volumes in the Center for Pastor Theologians series bring together the reflections of pastors and theologians who desire to make ongoing contributions to the wider scholarly community for the renewal of both theology and the church. The doctrine of creation is crucial to the Christian faith, but it has often been maligned, misinterpreted, or ignored. What does it mean today to both affirm the goodness of God's creation and anticipate the new creation? Based on the third annual conference of the Center for Pastor Theologians, this volume brings together the reflections of church leaders, academic theologians, and scientists on the importance--and the many dimensions--of the doctrine of creation Edited By Gerald Hiestand & Todd Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.