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God and world in the Old Testament : a relational theology of creation / Terence E. Fretheim.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Nashville : Abingdon Press, (c)2005.Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780687342969
  • 9781426719455
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS1199 .G633 2010
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Contents:
Language of creation -- To what does creation refer? -- Creation, redemption, and salvation -- A relational creator and a relational world -- The universality of God's presence in the created order -- Excursus: Genesis 1-2 and modern science --
Basic characteristics of Genesis 1-2 -- Modes of creation -- Images of God the creator -- Images of God the creator -- The creature and the creative process -- Creation and Sabbath, God and time -- Excursus: Creation stories in the Ancient Near East --
Genesis 3:1-24 - The originating sin -- Genesis 4:1-6:5 - The snowballing effects of sin -- Genesis 6:5-8:22 - The Flood: The great divide -- Genesis 9:1-11:26 - A new world order --
Creation in Genesis 12-50 -- Human beings in community: Family, nation and land -- "Implied Law" in Genesis 12-50 -- Images of God -- Creation in Exodus --
Divine commandment and natural law -- Creation and worship -- Law and vocation -- A dynamic understanding of law -- A point of contemporary significance --
Creation and judgment -- Perspectives on judgment -- God judges through means -- Divine judgment and the created moral order -- The oracles against the nations -- Amos's creation doxologies -- Creation and judgment in Jeremiah -- A close study of Jeremiah 12 -- Creation and salvation in the prophets --
Creation and wisdom literature -- Woman wisdom in Proverbs 8 -- Wisdom as human and female -- Wisdom as created cocreator -- Rejoicing and delighting -- Revelation - Words to the wise -- God and creation in the Book of Job --
History of interpretation -- Genre and metaphor -- Tradition -- Concluding reflections --
A relational model of creation -- Human and nonhuman vocation -- Human vocation -- The vocation of the nonhuman.
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Reference (Library Use ONLY) G. Allen Fleece Library REFERENCE BS1199.F748.G63 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available BIB 4321 | BIB 6320 31923001794425

THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Language of creation -- To what does creation refer? -- Creation, redemption, and salvation -- A relational creator and a relational world -- The universality of God's presence in the created order -- Excursus: Genesis 1-2 and modern science --

THE CREATION ACCOUNTS IN GENESIS -- Basic characteristics of Genesis 1-2 -- Modes of creation -- Images of God the creator -- Images of God the creator -- The creature and the creative process -- Creation and Sabbath, God and time -- Excursus: Creation stories in the Ancient Near East --

CREATION AT RISK: DISRUPTED, ENDANGERED, RESTORED (GENESIS 3 - 11) -- Genesis 3:1-24 - The originating sin -- Genesis 4:1-6:5 - The snowballing effects of sin -- Genesis 6:5-8:22 - The Flood: The great divide -- Genesis 9:1-11:26 - A new world order --

CREATION AND THE FOUNDATION NARRATIVES OF ISRAEL -- Creation in Genesis 12-50 -- Human beings in community: Family, nation and land -- "Implied Law" in Genesis 12-50 -- Images of God -- Creation in Exodus --

CREATION AND LAW -- Divine commandment and natural law -- Creation and worship -- Law and vocation -- A dynamic understanding of law -- A point of contemporary significance --

CREATION, JUDGMENT, AND SALVATION IN THE PROPHETS -- Creation and judgment -- Perspectives on judgment -- God judges through means -- Divine judgment and the created moral order -- The oracles against the nations -- Amos's creation doxologies -- Creation and judgment in Jeremiah -- A close study of Jeremiah 12 -- Creation and salvation in the prophets --

WISDOM AND CREATION -- Creation and wisdom literature -- Woman wisdom in Proverbs 8 -- Wisdom as human and female -- Wisdom as created cocreator -- Rejoicing and delighting -- Revelation - Words to the wise -- God and creation in the Book of Job --

NATURE'S PRAISE OF GOD -- History of interpretation -- Genre and metaphor -- Tradition -- Concluding reflections --

CONCLUSION: IMPLICATION OF A RELATIONAL THEOLOGY OF CREATION -- A relational model of creation -- Human and nonhuman vocation -- Human vocation -- The vocation of the nonhuman.

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