To Begin With, God Created--: Biblical Theologies of Creation

Front Cover
Liturgical Press, 2000 - Religion - 200 pages
Biblical creation faith and biblical salvation faith both have important statements regarding creation theology. Karl Loning and Erich Zenger bring the parts of the divided yet unified Christian Bible into dialogue with one another, so that the entire biblical tradition attains a new life.
 

Contents

The Interplay of Chaos and Cosmos
9
The Beginning of Creation in the View of Genesis 1
18
The Eschatological Establishment of Gods Rule as
45
Lady Wisdom as Gods Creative Life Force Proverbs 8
57
This
65
The Biblical Primeval History in Genesis
99
123
105
1929
118
The Torah as the Sun of Creation
133
Gods Creation and the Wisdom of Jesus
143
On the Relationship Between Creation
163
The Activity of the Spirit of God rūaḥ for the Fulfillment
173
The Renewal of Creation Begins with the New Creation
180
Impetuses for a BiblicallyInspired Culture of Creation
188
Index of Scriptural References
191
Copyright

Israel as Revelation of the Merciful God of Creation
128

Common terms and phrases

Bibliographic information