Theology of Creation and the Use of Scripture Creation, David Fergusson, Eerdmans, 2014 (ISBN 978-0-8028-7196-1), viii + 149 pp., pb 18 From Nothing: A Theology of Creation, Ian A. McFarland, Westminster John Knox, 2014 (ISBN 978-0-664-23819-3), xvii + 212 pp., pb 35
David Fergusson's recent book, Creation, overviews differing aspects of creation for a theologically-literate but non-specialist readership, while Ian McFarland's From Nothing: A Theology of Creation offers a sophisticated account of the meaning and theological implications of the classic...
| Published in: | Reviews in religion and theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2017
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Reviews in religion and theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 419-422 |
| Review of: | From nothing (Louisville, KY : WJK, Westminster John Knox Press, 2014) (Moberly, Walter)
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David Fergusson
B Book review B Creation B use of scripture B ex nihilo B Ian McFarland |
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| Summary: | David Fergusson's recent book, Creation, overviews differing aspects of creation for a theologically-literate but non-specialist readership, while Ian McFarland's From Nothing: A Theology of Creation offers a sophisticated account of the meaning and theological implications of the classic doctrine of creatio ex nihilo. Although both books make constructive appeal to Scripture, I suggest that their use of Scripture indicates that their creative theological thinking is not primarily done by working through the interpretative challenges that Scripture presents. There thus remains a distance between biblically and systematically oriented theological thinking. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9418 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Reviews in religion and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rirt.12956 |