God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of GodThe title expresses the book's intention: not to go on distinguishing between God and the world, so as then to surrender the world, as godless, to its scientific 'disenchantment' and its technical exploitation by human beings, but instead to discover God in all the beings he has created and to find his life-giving Spirit in the community of creation that they share. This view¿which has also been called panentheistic (in contrast to pantheistic)¿requires us to bring reverence for the life of every living thing into the adoration of God. And this means expanding the worship and service of God to include service for God's creation. |
Contents
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2 Creation for Glory | 4 |
3 The Sabbath of Creation | 5 |
4 The Messianic Preparation of Creation to be the Kingdom | 7 |
5 Creation in the Spirit | 9 |
6 Gods Immanence in the World | 13 |
7 The Principle of Mutual Interpenetration | 16 |
4 THE MODERN CRITICISM OF HEAVEN | 175 |
5 GODS GLORY IN HEAVEN AS IT IS ON EARTH | 181 |
The Evolution of Creation | 185 |
2 EVOLUTION OR CREATION? FALSE CONFRONTATIONS GENUINE PROBLEMS | 190 |
3 EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES IN NATURE | 197 |
4 CONTINUOUS CREATION | 206 |
Gods Image in Creation Human Beings | 215 |
IMAGO DEI | 216 |
8 The Cosmic Spirit and Human Consciousness | 17 |
In the Ecological Crisis | 20 |
The Crisis of Domination | 23 |
2 ON THE WAY TO AN ECOLOGICAL THEOLOGY OF NATURE | 33 |
3 THE ALIENATION AND LIBERATION OF NATURE | 40 |
Nature as Subject | 42 |
3 The Home Country in Nature | 46 |
4 Soul and Body | 47 |
5 The Naturalization of the Human Being | 49 |
The Knowledge of Creation | 53 |
2 NATURAL THEOLOGY | 57 |
3 THE WORLD AS PROMISE AND ANTICIPATION | 60 |
4 MESSIANIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD | 65 |
5 THE EUCHARISTIC COMMUNITY OF CREATION | 69 |
God the Creator | 72 |
2 GODS DETERMINATION OF HIMSELF TO BE CREATOR | 79 |
3 CREATION OUT OF NOTHING | 86 |
4 THE TRINITARIAN DOCTRINE OF CREATION | 94 |
5 THE COSMIC SPIRIT | 98 |
The Time of Creation | 104 |
2 TIME AS THE ETERNAL PRESENT | 109 |
3 THE TIME OF CREATION | 112 |
4 EXPERIENCES OF TIME IN THE HISTORY GOD | 118 |
5 THE INTERLACED TIMES OF HISTORY | 124 |
1 The Experience of History against the Horizon of its Future | 126 |
2 The Historicization of the Present Past | 130 |
3 The Futurization of the Present Future | 132 |
4 The Synchronization of Historical Times | 135 |
5 The Synchronization of Historical Time and Natural Time | 137 |
The Space of Creation | 140 |
1 THE ECOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF SPACE | 142 |
2 THE CONCEPT OF HOMOGENEOUS SPACE | 145 |
3 THE CREATION OF SPACES AND THE SPACE OF CREATION | 147 |
4 THE PROBLEM OF ABSOLUTE SPACE | 152 |
Heaven and Earth | 158 |
2 THE HEAVEN OF NATURE | 164 |
3 THE HEAVEN OF JESUS CHRIST | 169 |
IMAGO CHRISTI | 225 |
GLORIA DEI | 228 |
4 AT ONCE GODS IMAGE AND A SINNER | 229 |
5 SOCIAL LIKENESS TO GOD | 234 |
Embodiment is the end of all Gods works | 244 |
1 THE PRIMACY OF THE SOUL | 247 |
1 Plato and the Death of the Body | 248 |
2 Descartes and the Mechanistic Body | 250 |
3 Karl Barth and the Ministering Body of a Ruling Soul | 252 |
2 SOUL AND BODY | 255 |
1 Thinking with the Body in the Old Testament | 256 |
2 The Perichoretic Pattern of Body and Soul | 258 |
3 Spirit and Gestalt | 262 |
4 Spirit as Anticipation | 264 |
5 Spirit as Communication | 266 |
6 Spirit as the Affirmation of Life | 268 |
3 LIFE IN HEALTH AND SICKNESS | 270 |
The Sabbath The Feast of Creation | 276 |
1 THE COMPLETION OF CREATION | 278 |
2 THE BLESSING OF CREATION | 281 |
3 THE SANCTIFICATION OF CREATION | 283 |
4 THE FEAST OF REDEMPTION | 287 |
5 JESUS AND THE SABBATH | 290 |
THE FEAST OF THE BEGINNING | 292 |
Symbols of the World | 297 |
1 THE GREAT WORLD MOTHER | 298 |
2 MOTHER EARTH | 301 |
3 THE FEAST OF HEAVEN AND EARTH | 303 |
2 THE WORLD AS DANCE | 304 |
5 THE GREAT THEATRE OF THE WORLD | 308 |
6 PLAY AS SYMBOL OF THE WORLD | 310 |
7 THE WORLD AS WORK AND AS MACHINE | 312 |
8 SYMBOLS COMPARED IN THE MESSIANIC LIGHT | 316 |
NOTES | 321 |
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