Theater of His Glory

The concept of creation as God's arena of order and action links themes to which John Calvin returns again and again in his works.

Susan E. Schreiner is associate professor of church history at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She holds a Ph.D. from Duke University

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Providence: The Proscenium Arch	p. 7
Historical Background	p. 8
Calvin on Creation	p. 15
Calvin's Doctrine of Providence: The Polemical Context	p. 16
The Stoic, Pantheistic, and Naturalistic Errors	p. 16
The Epicurean Error: The Distant God	p. 19
The Fragile and Precarious Nature of the Created Order	p. 22
The Fall and the Threatening Character of Creation	p. 28
Providence and Secondary Causality	p. 30
Calvin's Arguments for the Providence of God	p. 32
Conclusions	p. 35
The Angels Who do His Bidding	p. 39
Background: Ancient and Medieval Angelology	p. 40
The Existence and Nature of Angels	p. 45
The Function of Unfallen Angels	p. 46
Limitation of Angels	p. 49
Conclusions	p. 52
Imago Dei: Thou Has Made Him A Little Lower Than the Angels	p. 55
Historical Background	p. 55
Nature of the Soul	p. 60
The Nature of the Prefallen Soul	p. 64
The Nature of the Fallen Soul	p. 65
Natural Man Outside of Redemption	p. 70
Conclusions	p. 72
Their Conscience Also Bears Witness: Natural Law and Societal Life	p. 73
Historical Background	p. 73
Nature and Societal Life	p. 79
The State and the Ordered Life	p. 82
Natural Law and the Insight into Order	p. 87
The Active Life	p. 91
Conclusions	p. 94
Creation set Free	p. 97
The Role of the Cosmos in Redemption	p. 97
The Redemption of Human Nature	p. 99
The Redemption of History and Society	p. 107
Conclusions	p. 111
Conclusion	p. 115
Notes	p. 123
Index	p. 159
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