Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. Genesis: In the Beginning 2. God and Creation ex nihilo 3. God and Creation: Participation and Providence 4. Creation, the Rise of Natural Science and the Design of the Universe 5. The Environment and the Gift of Creation: Beyond Nature and Culture Notes Bibliography Appendix: Reading Aquinas
An introduction to the Christian theology of creation and its relation to scientific and philosophical approaches to nature.
Simon Oliver is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK.
This year I learned a lot from Simon Oliver’s Creation: A Guide for
the Perplexed, which begins with Genesis and ends with the
contemporary environmental crisis – but its heart is an account of
Thomas Aquinas’s profound theological vision that is almost
dazzling in its lucidity.
*Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year*
This is a very fine book. I suspect it is one that will continue to
be read for a good many years.
*Church of England Newspaper*
A valuable summary of modern scholarship about the circumstances
under which Genesis was written as well as a review of the theories
of the Church Fathers as to how the text was to be interpreted.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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