According to the Christian faith, Jesus Christ is the ultimate
revelation not only of the nature of God the Creator but also of
how God the Creator relates to the created order. The New Testament
explicitly relates the act of creation to the person of Jesus
Christ - who is also a participant within creation, and who is
said, by his acts of participation, to have secured creation's
ultimate redemption from the problems which presently afflict it.
Christian theology proposes that Jesus Christ, the incarnate Word
and Wisdom of God, the agent in whom the Spirit of God is supremely
present among us, is the rationale and the telos of all things -
time-space as we experience and explore it; nature and all its
enigmas; matter itself. Christology is thus utterly fundamental to
a theology of creation, as this is unfolded both in Scripture and
in early Christian theology. For all this, the contemporary
conversation about science and faith tends, to a remarkable degree,
to neglect the significance of Jesus Christ, focusing instead on a
generic "God of wonder" or "God of natural theology." Such general
theism is problematic from the perspective of Christian theology on
many levels and has at times led to a more or less deistic
theology: the impression that God has created the world, then
largely left it to itself. Such a theology is far removed from
classical Christian renderings of creation, providence, redemption,
and eschatology. According to these, the theology of creation is
not just about remote "beginnings," or the distant acts of a divine
originator. Rather, the incarnate Jesus Christ is himself -
remarkably - the means and the end for which creation itself
exists. If we would think aright about our world, study it and live
within it wisely, we must reckon centrally with his significance.
What might such a bold claim possibly mean, and why is Jesus Christ
said by Christian theology to be so important for understanding
God's overall relationship to the created order? What does this
importance mean for science? Christ and the Created Order addresses
these questions by gathering insights from biblical scholars,
theologians, historians, philosophers, and scientists. This
interdisciplinary collection of essays reflects on the significance
of Jesus Christ for understanding the created world, particularly
as that world is observed by the natural sciences. Contributors to
Christ and the Created Order include Marilyn McCord Adams, Richard
Bauckham, Deborah Haarsma, Paul Moser, Murray Rae, James K. A.
Smith, Norman Wirzba, N. T. Wright, and more.
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