Showing posts with label Creation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creation. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Two sides of the same battle

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Even believers end up defending a theistic universe rather than the biblical cosmos. Eliminating mystery as a consequence of Protestant crit...
Friday, January 19, 2024

It's not divine!

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Perhaps one of the most significant affirmations which the Old Testament concept of creation makes is that nature is not divine. The Genesis...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Augustine on creation, part 3 (final)

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Although Augustine clearly believes that creation involves the universe having a beginning, he does not limit God’s creative activity to tha...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

More Augustine and creation

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Creation for Augustine is also ad extra ; that is, God creates the world not from his own nature but as something distinct from himself. (Th...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Augustine and Creation

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In Augustine’s thought creation takes the place of Plotinian emanation. God’s creation is not a necessary effusion of his being, but a free ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

There's an order here, and it matters

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This can be seen from the order of the statements about the Imago Dei and the mastery of Nature. The former must come first; the latter fo...

On being truly human

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Man's decisive position above Nature, however, is attained in the fact that he does not worship it as divine. Man's distance from Na...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Made in the image of God

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It is a very significant feature of the Old Testament Creation narrative that all other creatures are called into existence by the commandin...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

More from Brunner on Creation

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So this world, whose different successive states are described by the various natural sciences (astrophysics, geology, etc.) and are causall...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Brunner on Creation

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The so-called “Mosaic” story of Creation is not only a wonderful testimony to the divine revelation, but it is also the product of a very pr...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

All that is not God

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For the Christians, as for the Jews, the story did not begin with all that is but with God’s creation of all that is not God. The world had ...
Friday, March 03, 2023

Demiurge? or Creator?

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God is the One who absolutely determines all things, and is determined by none. He is conditioned by nothing, therefore, not even by a “Noth...
Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Unfortunate reversal

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Behind the line of argument here [Rom 1:23] would seem to be the biblical tradition, stemming from Gen 1:26–28, where human beings, created ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Stop it!

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And God intends to liberate the world from this “bondage to decay,” which is evidence of God’s continuing care for creation. In the meantime...
Monday, September 26, 2022

But don't worship it!

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Ethically, then, the point of the creation story of Genesis and the entire Bible’s witness is the call to care for God is good creation whi...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Stop the exploitation!

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God’s assignment of the human to have dominion never hints at permission to exploit, let alone ruin, nature; it remains part of the “image a...
Saturday, July 09, 2022

Hymn for today

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1 *All creatures worship God most high, lift up your voice in earth and sky, alleluia, alleluia! Thou burning sun with golden beam, thou...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Silent scream

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At the behest of an unrestrained market, we have in just over two centuries depleted goods it took millions of years for nature to accrue. F...
Tuesday, April 05, 2022

In cooperation with, not in competition with

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Accordingly, in the face of neoliberal capitalism, which envisions creation only as exploitable nature, an apocalyptic perspective calls the...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Exploitation vs. worship

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Human solidarity with all of creation is twofold. First, humans are created by God with all other creatures. Second, humans, like the entire...