God And World In The Old Testament

Fretheim presents here the Old Testament view of the Creator God, the created world, and our role in creation. With "The Beginning," he demonstrates that creation is open-ended and connected. Then, from every part of the Old Testament, Fretheim explores the fullness and richness of Israel's thought regarding creation: from the dynamic created order to human sin, judgment, and environmental devastation, to salvation, redemption, and a new creation.

Terence E. Fretheim is Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Foreword

vii

Introduction

ix

1. Theological Perspectives

1

(28)

Language of Creation

1

(2)

To What Does Creation Refer?

3

(7)

Creation, Redemption, and Salvation

10

(3)

A Relational Creator and a Relational World

13

(9)

The Universality of God's Presence in the Created Order

22

(5)

Excursus: Genesis 1-2 and Modern Science

27

(2)

2. The Creation Accounts in Genesis

29

(40)

Basic Characteristics of Genesis 1-2

30

(4)

Modes of Creation

34

(2)

Images of God the Creator

36

(12)

The Creature and the Creative Process

48

(13)

Creation and Sabbath, God and Time

61

(3)

Excursus: Creation Stories in the Ancient Near East

64

(5)

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

69

(22)

Genesis 3:1-24-The Originating Sin

70

(7)

Genesis 4:1-6:5-The Snowballing Effects of Sin

77

(2)

Genesis 6:5-8:22-The Flood: The Great Divide

79

(4)

Genesis 9:1-11:26-A New World Order

83

(8)

4. Creation and the Foundation Narratives of Israel

91

(42)

Creation in Genesis 12-50

91

(2)

Human Beings in Community: Family, Nation, and Land

93

(4)

"Implied Law" in Genesis 12-50

97

(3)

Images of God

100

(9)

Creation in Exodus

109

(24)

5. Creation and Law

133

(24)

Creation and Law

135

(5)

Divine Commandment and Natural Law

140

(4)

Creation and Worship

144

(2)

Law and Vocation

146

(1)

A Dynamic Understanding of Law

147

(8)

A Point of Contemporary Significance

155

(2)

6. Creation, Judgment, and Salvation in the Prophets

157

(42)

Creation and Judgment

157

(1)

Perspectives on Judgment

158

(3)

God Judges through Means

161

(2)

Divine Judgment and the Created Moral Order

163

(3)

The Oracles against the Nations

166

(2)

Amos's Creation Doxologies

168

(3)

Creation and Judgment in Jeremiah

171

(3)

A Close Study of Jeremiah 12

174

(7)

Creation and Salvation in the Prophets

181

(18)

7. Wisdom and Creation

199

(50)

Creation and Wisdom Literature

199

(6)

Woman Wisdom in Proverbs 8

205

(3)

Wisdom as Human and Female

208

(5)

Wisdom as Created Cocreator

213

(3)

Rejoicing and Delighting

216

(2)

Revelation-Words to the Wise

218

(1)

God and Creation in the Book of Job

219

(30)

8. Nature's Praise of God

249

(20)

History of Interpretation

252

(3)

Genre and Metaphor

255

(4)

Tradition

259

(4)

Concluding Reflections

263

(6)

Conclusion: Implications of a Relational Theology of Creation

269

(16)

A Relational Model of Creation

269

(4)

Human and Nonhuman Vocation

273

(1)

Human Vocation

273

(5)

The Vocation of the Nonhuman

278

(7)

Abbreviations

285

(2)

Notes

287

(82)

Author Index

369

(6)

Scripture Index

375

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