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Foreword to the German Edition
I. Creation and Evolution--The Current Debate
Creation: Where Does It Come from and Where Is It Going?
Theology of Creation and the Worldview of Natural Science
Not Losing Wonder
II. "In the Beginning, God Created ." (Genesis 1:1)
Belief in Creation as Fanaticism?
An Outline of the Theology of Creation
What Is the Beginning?
Creation and the Freedom of God
III. "He Created Everything according to Its Kind" (cf. Genesis 1:11)
A Look at the Biblical Message about Creation
Everything Is Created
Variety Is What God Wills
Order in Variety
Evolution and Ascent
Creation or Nature?
The Common Bond of Creatureliness
Creation to the Glory of God
IV. "He Upholds the Universe by His Word of Power" (Hebrews 1:3)
God Is at Work in the World--A Poetical Approach
Creation and Providence
Evolution as a Matter of Belief?
Continuing Providence
New Things in Creation
The Incredible Wealth of Variety
V. "You Guide Everything ..."-God's Guidance and the World's Suffering
Critical Questions Put to Belief
In Search of an Answer
The Best of Worlds?
Everything That Is, Is Good-But Limited
Can Evil Even Be Good?
Pointers toward an Answer
VI. "...Little Less Than God" (Psalm 8:6)--Man as the Crown of Creation?
The World Was Created for the Sake of Man
Man--A Part of Nature
Immersed in the Stream of Things Coming into Existence
The Small Distinction
The Choice between Reason and Irrationality
"The Fly Was Created before You"
VII. "All Things Were Created for Him" (Colossians 1:16)--Christ--The Goal of Creation
Christ--Creator of the World
"In Him All Things Hold Together"
Easter as a New Creation
Teilhard de Chardin--Witness to Christ
VIII. "Subdue the Earth" (Genesis 1:28)--Responsibility for Creation
Man's Dominion in the World
Listening to Creation
Right and Wrong Understandings of Dominion
Responsibility for Creation and Science
IX. Summary and Prospect
Two Ways of Looking at Things--TwoStories
Neo-Darwinism and Neo-Liberalism
Neo-Darwinism and the Pedagogy of Fitness
The Struggle for an Ethics of Life
Conclusion
Scripture Index
General Index
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