The Old Testament view of the creator God is presented with the opinion that creation is both open-ended and connected. Human sin, environmental devastation, salvation and redemption are also discussed.
"The central debate of natural theology among medieval Muslims and Jews concerned whether or not the world was eternal. Opinions divided sharply on this issue because the outcome bore directly on God's relationship with the world: eternity implies a deity bereft of will, while a…
"The central debate of natural theology among medieval Muslims and Jews concerned whether or not the world was eternal. Opinions divided sharply on this issue because the outcome bore directly on God's relationship with the world: eternity implies a deity bereft of will, while a…
The theology of creation interconnected with virtually every aspect of early Christian thought, from Trinitarian doctrine to salvation to ethics. Paul M. Blowers provides an advanced introduction to the multiplex relation between Creator and creation as an object both of theolog…
"Comparing Avicenna's and Thomas Aquinas' positions regarding human knowledge, this volume talks about God and the nature of the creative action and the beginning of the universe. The overall argument of the book is that their conception of theological language plays an importan…
"Creation out of Nothing" provides a full-fledged exploration of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing) that focuses on biblical, theological, extrabiblical, philosophical, and scientific support for the doctrine. The book begins with a statement about the …
A complete translation of all the published cuneiformtablets of the various Babylonian creation stories, of both the Semitic Babylonian and the Sumerian material. Each creation account is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the age and provenance of the tablets, the ai…