God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

Foreword

       Introduction

       1. Theological Perspectives

       Language of Creation

       To What Does Creation Refer?

       Creation, Redemption, and Salvation

       A Relational Creator and a Relational World

       The Universality of God\'s Presence in the Created Order

       Excursus: Genesis 1–2 and Modern Science

2. The Creation Accounts in Genesis

       Basic Characteristics of Genesis 1–2

       Modes of Creation

       Images of God the Creator

       The Creature and the Creative Process

       Creation and Sabbath, God and Time

       Excursus: Creation Stories in the Ancient Near East

       

3. Creation at Risk: Disrupted, Endangered, Restored (Genesis 3–11)

       Genesis 3:1-24—The Originating Sin

       Genesis 4:1–6:5—The Snowballing Effects of Sin

       Genesis 6:5–8:22—The Flood: The Great Divide

       Genesis 9:1–11:26—A New World Order

       

4.Creation and the Foundation Narratives of Israel

       Creation in Genesis 12–50

       Human Beings in Community: Family, Nation, and Land

       \"Implied Law\" in Genesis 12–50

       Images of God 


       Creation in Exodus

      

 5. Creation and Law

       Creation and Law

       Divine Commandment and Natural Law

       Creation and Worship

       Law and Vocation

       A Dynamic Understanding of Law

       A Point of Contemporary Significance

       

6. Creation, Judgment, and Salvation in the Prophets

       Creation and Judgment

       Perspectives on Judgment

       God Judges through Means

       Divine Judgment and the Created Moral Order

       The Oracles against the Nations

       Amos\'s Creation Doxologies

       Creation and Judgment in Jeremiah

       A Close Study of Jeremiah 12  Creation and Salvation in the Prophets

      

 7. Wisdom and Creation

       Creation and Wisdom Literature

       Woman Wisdom in Proverbs 8

       Wisdom as Human and Female

       Wisdom as Created Cocreator

       Rejoicing and Delighting

       Revelation—Words to the Wise

       God and Creation in the Book of Job

       

8. Nature\'s Praise of God

       History of Interpretation

       Genre and Metaphor

       Tradition

       

Concluding Reflections

       
Conclusion: Implications of a Relational Theology of Creation

       
A Relational Model of Creation

       
Human and Nonhuman Vocation 
Human Vocation

       
The Vocation of the Nonhuman

       
Abbreviations

       
Notes

       
Author Index

Scripture Index