Reframing the World: Toward an Actual Christian Doctrine of Creation

Christian theologies of creation are in crisis. They have become overly determined by questions of human origins and interaction with evolutionary theorization. They have also focused myopically on ecological concerns without thinking ecologically and holistically about the built environment in rela...

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Main Author: Jennings, Willie James 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
In: International journal of systematic theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 388-407
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
NBD Doctrine of Creation
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Summary:Christian theologies of creation are in crisis. They have become overly determined by questions of human origins and interaction with evolutionary theorization. They have also focused myopically on ecological concerns without thinking ecologically and holistically about the built environment in relation to racial and gender formation and multispecies connectivity and relationality. These and other problems stem from a twofold failure. We have failed to take seriously the loss of our gentile positionality in relation to reading the world as creation and we have also failed to grasp the fundamental transformation of the world with the emergence of modern colonialism. This article suggests the possibility of a reframing of a doctrine of creation to address this crisis.
ISSN:1468-2400
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal of systematic theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/ijst.12385