Book contents
- This Sacred Life
- Reviews
- This Sacred Life
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Assessing Our Situation
- Part II Turning to Fundamentals
- Part III This Sacred Life
- 5 Why Sacred Anything?
- 6 The Logic of Creation
- 7 Creaturely Humanity
- 8 Called to Creativity
- Author Index
- Scripture Index
- Subject Index
6 - The Logic of Creation
from Part III - This Sacred Life
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2021
- This Sacred Life
- Reviews
- This Sacred Life
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Assessing Our Situation
- Part II Turning to Fundamentals
- Part III This Sacred Life
- 5 Why Sacred Anything?
- 6 The Logic of Creation
- 7 Creaturely Humanity
- 8 Called to Creativity
- Author Index
- Scripture Index
- Subject Index
Summary
The teaching of creation has been much misunderstood and under-developed because it has been taken to be primarily about how the world began a long, long time ago. Religious naturalists have often abandoned this teaching so as to give a more scientifically informed characterization of our cosmos and humanity’s place within it. Wirzba argues that this is a big mistake because the rejection of the idea that our world is a divinely created world makes it impossible to speak of life as a gift. This chapter develops what it means to say that each creature is gift cherished and sustained in its being by God. As such, it opens the idea of creation to encompass life’s meaning and purpose, and it creates a way for people to become involved in the nurture and healing of our world and our shared life. The logic of creation, upon further examination, is not about God’s power “over” the world but about God’s presence to the world in the forms of love that invite human participation in it.
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- This Sacred LifeHumanity's Place in a Wounded World, pp. 155 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021