Creation and Doxology: The Beginning and End of God's Good World 9780830874033, 9780830853861

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Creation and Doxology: The Beginning and End of God's Good World
 9780830874033, 9780830853861

Table of contents :
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

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