Fretheim, Terence E., <br/><br/>
God and world in the Old Testament :  a relational theology of creation /  [print] 
Terence E. Fretheim. 
 - Nashville :  Abingdon Press,  (c)2005. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1426719450 9780687342969 9781426719455 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible.--Old Testament--Theology.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Creation--Biblical teaching.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS1199.F748.G63 2005