Creation (Guides to Theology)
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Overview
This book explores anew the theme of creation in Scripture, tradition, and contemporary theology. David Fergusson defends the classical account of creation out of nothing but pays more sustained attention than the Christian tradition typically has given to the holistic significance of the created world.
Offering both doctrinal exposition and apologetic argument, Fergusson discusses creation in relation to the problem of evil and the fall, divine providence, deism, Darwinian evolution, environmental ethics, animal rights, even touching on the topic of extraterrestrial intelligence.
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- Explores the theme of creation in Scripture, tradition, and contemporary theology
- Offers an informed guide to the theology of creation in the Bible, through church history, and for today
- Discusses creation in relation to the problem of evil and the fall
- Creation in Scripture
- Creatio Ex Nihilo
- Creation and Fall
- The Providence of God
- Deism and Natural Theology
- Evolution and Cosmic Fine-Tuning
- Animals, the Environment, and Extraterrestrials
With characteristic erudition and wit, David Fergusson has written the essential primer on the doctrine of creation. His integration of the biblical material, historical theology, and ecological sensibility makes this engaging volume a must-read.
—William P. Brown, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary
This is a rare find: a concise work of historical and constructive theology on an urgent topic. Fergusson makes fresh sense of core theological doctrines, even as he pushes against some established boundaries of western theology.
—Ellen F. Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, Duke Divinity School
Fergusson's treatment of creation covers all the important topics. . . . He provides sufficient historical information without boring the reader with irrelevant minutiae.
—Hans Schwarz, professor of systematic theology and contemporary theological issues, University of Regensburg
- Title: Creation (Guides to Theology)
- Author: David Fergusson
- Series: Guides to Theology
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 157
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Creation
- ISBNs: 9780802871961, 0802871968
- Resource ID: LLS:CREATIONFERGUSSON
- Resource Type: Monograph
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