Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Knowing Creation —Andrew B. Torrance and Thomas H. McCall

I. Theological Perspectives

1. Every Good and Perfect Gift Is from Above: Creation Ex Nihilo before Nature and Culture

Simon Oliver

2. “We Are All God’s Vocabulary”: The Idea of Creation as a Speech-Act of the Trinitarian God and Its Significance for the Dialogue between Theology and Sciences

Christoph Schwöbel

3. Why Should Free Scientific Inquiry Matter to Faith? The Case of John Calvin

Randall C. Zachman

4. Not Knowing Creation

Andrew B. Torrance

II. Biblical and Historical Perspectives

5. Origins in Genesis: Claims of an Ancient Text in a Modern Scientific World

John H. Walton

6. How Did Genesis Become a Problem? On the Hermeneutics of Natural Science

Francis Watson

7. Knowing Creation in the Light of Job and Astrobiology

William P. Brown

8. Knowing and Being Known: Interpersonal Cognition and the Knowledge of God in Paul’s Letters

Susan Grove Eastman

III. Philosophical Perspectives

9. Sanctifying Matter

Marilyn McCord Adams†

10. The Vision of the Hazelnut

Peter van Inwagen

11. Are We Hardwired to Believe in God? Natural Signs for God, Evolution, and the Sensus Divinitatis

C. Stephen Evans

12. Knowing Nature: Aristotle, God, and the Quantum

Robert C. Koons

IV. Scientific Perspectives

13. Knowing Nature: Beyond the False Dilemma of Reduction or Emergence

William M. R. Simpson

14. Creation, Providence, and Evolution

Denis R. Alexander

15. “The Trees of the Field Shall Clap Their Hands” (Isaiah 55:12): What Does It Mean to Say That a Tree Praises God?

Mark Harris

16. The Science-and-Religion Delusion: Towards a Theology of Science

Tom McLeish

Subject Index

Scripture Index