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Creation ex nihilo: Origins, Development, Contemporary Challenges
. Edited by
Gary A
Anderson
and
Markus
Bockmuehl
. Pp. viii +
421
.
Notre Dame, IN
:
University of Notre Dame Press
,
2018
. isbn978 0 268 10253 1, 10255 5, and 10256 2. Hardback $45; paper $35; ePDF n.p.; e-book n.p.
Christopher Villiers Braunton Email: villiers.christopher@yahoo.co.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 70, Issue 2, October 2019, Pages 926–928, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flz118
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30 July 2019
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Christopher Villiers, Creation ex nihilo: Origins, Development, Contemporary Challenges. Edited by Gary A. Anderson and Markus Bockmuehl, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 70, Issue 2, October 2019, Pages 926–928, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flz118
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This essay collection, with a useful introduction by Marcus Bockmuehl, falls naturally into four sections. The first concerns the biblical origins of creation ex nihilo, beginning with Gary A. Anderson’s overview, making the case that although Gen. 1:2 seems to describe creation with pre-existing matter, there is a long-standing tradition that these materials were themselves created by God and that even if proof-texts for the doctrine are scanty, the biblical understanding of creation as completely God’s gift and sustained by God’s loving grace is hardly incompatible with it. There are some interesting reflections on free will and philanthropy in relation to the subject. Leading nicely on, Janet Martin Soskice gives a summary of creation ex nihilo and its contemporary reception, with reference to Scripture, science, and modern, particularly feminist, critiques. She argues that the doctrine is not so much about a point in time (Aquinas was prepared in principle to believe an eternal universe could be created ex nihilo), or about God domineering, but that all being is born of God’s love. R. T. Clifford compares and contrasts Old Testament notions of creation with neighbouring Near Eastern cosmologies, God’s sovereignty over chaos being total, though there is a possibility of it returning, as Job and the Psalms observe. Nevertheless by returning to God, as Deutero-Isaiah teaches, creation can be restored. Sean M. McDonough gives an arresting reading of Revelation, in which the ‘counter-creation’ of Babylon and its rulers is swept away into a de-creation that allows the general resurrection and a new heaven and a new earth to take the old ones’ place. The section concludes with Gregory E. Sterling viewing Philo of Alexandria’s attempting to reconcile biblical exegesis with contemporary thought represented by Plato’s Timaeus. He does not argue for creation ex nihilo but his defence of the transcendence and power of God clearly influenced patristic thought.
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