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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Detailed Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Queuing the Questions
1. What Do Christians Have to Do With Creation?
What Are We Talking About?
Why Are We Talking About It?
2. How Do We Think Biblically and Theologically About Creation?
Strategies of Interpretation
The Bridge
The Roundabout
Historical and Systematic Theology
Culture
Science
Arriving At Answers
3. A Beautiful World
God and Creation
God’s Beautiful World
Orderedness and Contingency
Goodness
Diversity and Abundance
Responding to God’s Beautiful World
Celebrating God’s Expansive Care
Recognizing Creation’s Testimony
Perceiving Creation’s Enduring Goodness
Acknowledging Humanity’s Limits
Acknowledging God’s Ownership
Joining the Cosmic Choir
Summary
Relevant Questions
4. Members, Rulers, and Keepers of Creation
Members of the Community of Creation
Image of God
Dominion
Noah and the Preservation of Life
Dominion As Stewardship?
Summary
Relevant Questions
5. Humanity and the Earth, Israel and the Land
Life In a Land of Abundance
The Lives of Other Creatures and the Sacrificial System
Sustainability and Restraint In the Law of Israel
Sabbath and Jubilee
Summary
Relevant Questions
6. A Creation Subjected to Frustration
An Enduring Goodness
The World Is Changed
The Earth Mourns
The Creation Groans
God Weeps for Creation
Our Response
Summary
Relevant Questions
7. Jesus and Creation
The Significance of Jesus’s Incarnation
The Peaceable Kingdom of God’s Messiah
Looking to Jesus to Learn What It Is to Be Human
Looking to Jesus to Learn What It Is to Rule
Looking With Jesus At Creation: Consider the Lilies . . .
Looking to Jesus for Creation’s Goal: Resurrection and New Creation
Creation’s Response to Jesus
Summary
Relevant Questions
8. “What Counts Is the New Creation”
The Pattern of Fulfillment
God, Human Beings—and Nature?
The Land
The “Land” Becomes the “World”
Long Life On the Earth
New Creation
The Roots of New Creation
Galatians 6:15
2 Corinthians 5:17
Creation and New Creation
Reconciling All Things
Summary: The World of Nature In the “Last Days”
Relevant Questions
9. “I Am Making Everything New!”
Creation’s Destiny: Liberation
Creation’s Destiny: A Place “Where Righteousness Dwells”
Creation’s Destiny: “A New Heaven and a New Earth”
Creation Transformed
What About Heaven?
Summary: A Material Eternity
Relevant Questions
Reflecting On Relevance
10. The Gospel and Creation Care
Creation Care As Part of the Gospel
Transformed By the Gospel
Summary: The Eyes of Faith
Relevant Questions
11. Humans and Creation: Understanding Our Place
Stewards of Creation
Caring for Creation and Caring for Humans
Summary: Living the Whole Story
Relevant Questions
12. Wisdom and Creation Care
Difficult Decisions
The Way of Wisdom
Learning About Our World
Making Good Decisions
Appreciating Our Limitations
Summary: Stewarding With Renewed Minds
Relevant Questions
13. Creation In Crisis?
“The Earth Is Full of Your Creatures”: Biodiversity Loss
“People Go Out to Their Work, to Their Labor Until Evening”: Dominion or Domination?
Where “Birds Make Their Nests” and “Sing Among the Branches”: Loss of the World’s Forests
“The Sea, Vast and Spacious, Teeming With Creatures Beyond Number”: The Plight of the World’s Oceans
“Bringing Forth Food from the Earth”: Agriculture In Crisis?
“The Sun Knows When to Go Down”: A Changing Climate
Assessing Our Cumulative Impact
Summary
Relevant Questions
14. Caring for Creation and Worshipping the Creator
Two Necessary Things
Putting Creation Back Into New Creation
Putting Ourselves Back Into Creation
Practicing What We Preach: Transformed Living for a Transformed World
Attentiveness
Walking
Activism
Konsumerism
Eating
Summary
Scripture Index
Subject Index
Author Index
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