Creation Care (Paperback)

At the heart of Christian theology lies the relationship of God and humanity. Yet this relationship--this heart--takes place in the 'body' of our natural world, and it is this material world that is the focus of Doug and Jonathan Moo's biblical theology of creation care. Creation, what Calvin calls the 'theater' of God's glory, is the stage for the drama of redemption. More than that: the way human creatures engage the natural world, and the way God's Son enters his creation to redeem it, are themselves important parts of the biblical story. Just as Israel honored God by treating the promised land as a gift, so too Christians honor God by treating the earth itself as a good though fragile gift that will eventually realize the purpose for which God originally intended it: to be a place for divine-human fellowship. This is an important book by two biblical scholars that reminds us that the Bible is good news not only for the church but for the whole material creation to which the human creature is inextricably and forever bound. -- Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School