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11 - In Christ, Everything Has Changed

Christology and Creation

from Part IV - Transformative Creatures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2022

Susannah Cornwall
Susannah Cornwall
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University of Exeter
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The creation was made through Christ (John 1:3, Colossians 1:16). It was and is remade in him. He is the firstborn of creation (Colossians 1:15); in him all things are made anew (2 Corinthians 5:17). In Christ, all things hold together (Colossians 1:17). Yet where there is renewal there is shattering: where there is birth there is pain, blood, rupture. The new coming-into-being that Christ enabled occurred not as a bloodless, sterile event, but as something visceral, even foetid. There is nothing clean or immaculate about creation: it is messy and often wasteful; it has many casualties (Southgate 2008). It is, above all, profoundly material and, from the point of view of humans, profoundly animal.

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Constructive Theology and Gender Variance
Transformative Creatures
 , pp. 309 - 334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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