The Triune Creator: A Historical & Systematic Study,9780802845757

The Triune Creator: A Historical & Systematic Study

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ISBN13: 9780802845757
ISBN10: 0802845754
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-10-01
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Summary

This new volume in the Edinburgh Studies in Constructive Theology series provides a thorough theological history of the Christian doctrine of creation and explores the implications of the doctrine for our modern scientific age. Colin Gunton first looks at the origins of the doctrine of creation in the Bible and relates the biblical view of creation to Greek cosmology. He then examines the history of the doctrine, showing how theologians from Irenaeus to Barth have spoken of creation. Gunton argues that early in the development of the doctrine serious mistakes were made that have led to highly problematic outcomes, such as the divorce of theology from science. In the closing chapters Gunton focuses on important related themes, such as providence, eschatology, and the ethics of creation.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
`Maker of Heaven and Earth': An Introduction to some Essential Concepts
1(13)
The universality of belief in creation
1(7)
Some important concepts
8(6)
What Kind of World? The Bible, the Greeks and the Question of Ontology
14(27)
The Bible: (1) the Old Testament
14(6)
The Bible: (2) the New Testament
20(4)
The Greeks: (1) early cosmology
24(4)
The Greeks: (2) Plato and Aristotle
28(4)
Later Greek cosmology
32(4)
Ontology
36(5)
Towards a Theology of Mediation: Aspects of the Early History
41(24)
The theology of creation
41(3)
Hermeneutics: the fate of Genesis in the Hellenistic world
44(3)
Gnosticism
47(3)
Epistemology and cosmology: Justin Martyr
50(2)
Trinitarian mediation: Irenaeus of Lyons
52(5)
Creation, redemption and cosmology: Origen of Alexandria
57(4)
Systematic questions
61(4)
Creation out of Nothing: Eternity, Time and the Will of God
65(32)
Being and willing: Athanasius
66(2)
The ontological homogeneity of the creation: Basil of Caesarea
68(5)
Augustine of Hippo: (1) creation `out of nothing'
73(6)
Augustine of Hippo: (2) `in the beginning'
79(8)
The doctrine of creation out of nothing: implications
87(5)
The doctrine of creation out of nothing: some remaining questions
92(5)
Aristotle, Creation and the Rise of Science
97(20)
The high Middle Ages: Thomas Aquinas
99(3)
Creation and the rise of science: (1) historical dimensions
102(9)
Creation and the rise of science: (2) intellectual considerations
111(6)
A New Theology of Nature: From Scotus to Kant
117(29)
The later Middle Ages: (1) John Duns Scotus
117(4)
The later Middle Ages: (2) William of Ockham
121(4)
The loss of the doctrine of creation in the modern world
125(5)
Immanuel Kant
130(4)
The necessity of a theology of nature
134(12)
Returning to the Trinity: A Tale of Five Centuries
146(29)
Luther and Calvin
147(7)
After the Reformation
154(3)
Two twentieth-century theologies: Karl Barth and Wolfhart Pannenberg
157(5)
Creation and redemption: (1) Karl Barth
162(4)
Creation and redemption: (2) `the two hands of God'
166(5)
Redemption and evil
171(4)
Creation and Providence: God's Interaction with the World
175(18)
Some preliminary definitions
175(3)
Dogmatic distinctions
178(4)
The mediation of providential action
182(2)
Providence and the problem of `Darwinism'
184(6)
The theology of nature again
190(3)
Creation and New Creation: In The Image and Likeness of God
193(19)
The point of the image
193(3)
Biblical considerations
196(2)
Christological considerations
198(2)
The nature of the image: creation and redemption again
200(6)
The matter of the image
206(6)
Eschatology and Ethics
212(25)
The problem of an eschatology of creation
213(3)
An alternative eschatology
216(2)
The point of eschatology
218(7)
Eschatology and ethics
225(3)
Towards an ethic of createdness
228(6)
From eschatology to worship
234(3)
Bibliography 237(6)
Index 243

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