God the Carer: Revelation and the Environment
This article is concerned with the extent to which Revelation can be claimed as a pro-creation text. It is argued that Revelation has a positive view of the whole of creation. Bredin suggests that Revelation has a strong ecological doctrine of creation, which is consistent with the Hebrew Bible and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2008
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Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 2008, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 76-86 |
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| Summary: | This article is concerned with the extent to which Revelation can be claimed as a pro-creation text. It is argued that Revelation has a positive view of the whole of creation. Bredin suggests that Revelation has a strong ecological doctrine of creation, which is consistent with the Hebrew Bible and at the heart of both. An understanding of caring in the caring professions is applied to both the Hebrew Bible and Revelation to unpack important aspects of God's nature, which more common descriptions such as king and steward do not. It follows from this that understanding God as carer leads also to an understanding of human beings as carers made in God's image. |
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| ISSN: | 1945-7596 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/01461079080380020401 |