How do we know and speak about God's relation to this world? Does God reveal himself through his creation? This book recaptures a Christian vision of all reality: that the world is full of divine signs that are openings into God's glory. Bringing together insights from some of the tradition's greatest thinkers--Edwards, Newman, and Barth--Gerald McDermott resurrects a robust theology of creation for Protestants. He shows how and where meaning can be found outside the church and special revelation in various realms of creation, including nature, science, law, history, animals, sex, and sports.
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Abbreviations |
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1 Recovering A Lost Vision |
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2 The Bible: A World of Types, Key to Types in All the Worlds |
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3 Nature: Sermons in Stones |
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4 Science: The Wonder of the Universe |
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5 Law: The Moral Argument |
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6 History: Images of God in the Histories of Peoples |
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101 | (16) |
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7 Animals: The Zoological World Bursting with Signs |
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117 | (16) |
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8 Sex: The Language of the Body |
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133 | (18) |
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9 Sports: Its Agonies and Ecstasies |
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151 | (12) |
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10 World Religions: So Similar and Yet So Different |
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11 A New World: Believing Is Seeing |
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183 | (12) |
| Appendix: Theological Objections---Luther and Barth |
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| Scripture Index |
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| Subject Index |
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Gerald R. McDermott (PhD, University of Iowa), now retired, was Anglican Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. He is an Anglican priest who serves at an Anglican church in Crozet, Virginia. He has authored or edited numerous books, including Israel Matters, World Religions, and The Theology of Jonathan Edwards, and has written for Christianity Today, the Christian Century, and First Things.
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