Creation and reality

Introduction. The collapse of Bourgeois theism and the crisis of religious existence ; Theology of creation : questions in Biblical perspective ; The new Biblical theology

What is creation? Reading Genesis 1 and 2. Conventional guiding conceptions of creation ; Rereading Genesis 1 and 2 ; What is creation? ; Critique of abstraction as a theological task

Creation and the problem of natural revelation. The defect of revelation : why does common sense prefer natural revelation? ; Calvin's appreciation and critique of natural revelation ; Creation and revelation

Creation as the heavens and the earth. "God is in heaven, and you are on earth" ; The heavens

unity and plurality of "transcendence" ; The earth

active and empowering environment

Angels and God's presence in creation. Messenger angelology and God's withdrawal ; Court angelology and the glory of God

Creation, the image of God, and the mandate of dominion. Recent theological attempts to weaken and to relativize the mandate of dominion ; The image of God, the mandate of dominion, and sexual differentiation of humans ; The mandate of dominion : obligation to hierarchically ordered partnership with animals and to dominion through caretaking

Creation and sin. "The fall" or the autonomy of created humankind ; Mere autonomy : the wretchedness of sinners