The Triune Creator: A Historical and Systematic Study (New Studies in Constructive Theology Series) Book

	Preface
1	'Maker of Heaven and Earth': An Introduction to some Essential Concepts	1
I	The universality of belief in creation	1
II	Some important concepts	8
2	What Kind of World? The Bible, the Greeks and the Question of Ontology	14
I	The Bible: (1) the Old Testament	14
II	The Bible: (2) the New Testament	20
III	The Greeks: (1) early cosmology	24
IV	The Greeks: (2) Plato and Aristotle	28
V	Later Greek cosmology	32
VI	Ontology	36
3	Towards a Theology of Mediation: Aspects of the Early History	41
I	The theology of creation	41
II	Hermeneutics: the fate of Genesis in the Hellenistic world	44
III	Gnosticism	47
IV	Epistemology and cosmology: Justin Martyr	50
V	Trinitarian mediation: Irenaeus of Lyons	52
VI	Creation, redemption and cosmology: Origen of Alexandria	57
VII	Systematic questions	61
4	Creation out of Nothing: Eternity. Time and the Will of God	65
I	Being and willing: Athanaisius	66
II	The ontological homogeneity of the creation: Basil of Caesarea	68
III	Augustine of Hippo: (1) creation 'out of nothing'	73
IV	Augustine of Hippo: (2) 'in the beginning'	79
V	The doctrine of creation out of nothing: implications	87
VI	The doctrine of creation out of nothing: some remaining questions	92
5	Aristotle, Creation and the Rise of Science	97
I	The high Middle Ages: Thomas Aquinas	99
II	Creation and the rise of science: (1) historical dimensions	102
III	Creation and the rise of science: (2) intellectual considerations	111
6	A New Theology of Nature: From Scotus to Kant	117
I	The later Middle Ages: (1) John Duns Scotus	117
II	The later Middle Ages: (2) William of Ockham	121
III	The loss of the doctrine of creation in the modern world	125
IV	Immanuel Kant	130
V	The necessity of a theology of nature	134
7	Returning to the Trinity: A Tale of Five Centuries	146
I	Luther and Calvin	147
II	After the Reformation	154
III	Two twentieth-century theologies: Karl Barth and Wolfhart Pannenberg	157
IV	Creation and redemption: (1) Karl Barth	162
V	Creation and redemption: (2) 'the two hands of God'	166
VI	Redemption and evil	171
8	Creation and Providence: God's Interaction with the World	175
I	Some preliminary definitions	175
II	Dogmatic distinctions	178
III	The mediation of providential action	182
IV	Providence and the problem of 'Darwinism'	184
V	The theology of nature again	190
9	Creation and New Creation: In the Image and Likeness of God	193
I	The point of the image	193
II	Biblical considerations	196
III	Christological considerations	198
IV	The nature of the image: creation and redemption again	200
V	The matter of the image	206
10	Eschatology and Ethics	212
I	The problem of an eschatology of creation	213
II	An alternative eschatology	216
III	The point of eschatology	218
IV	Eschatology and ethics	225
V	Towards an ethic of createdness	228
VI	From eschatology to worship	234
	Bibliography	237
	Index	243