For the Love of All Creatures: The Story of Grace in Genesis - Softcover

Greenway, William

 
9780802872913: For the Love of All Creatures: The Story of Grace in Genesis
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802872913 ISBN 13: 9780802872913
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2015

Synopsis

This broad- ranging, groundbreaking book by William Greenway unfolds a biblical spirituality centering on love for all creation and all creatures. Greenway rereads the creation and flood narratives in Genesis from an overtly creature-loving perspective that not only inspires care for creation but also reveals sophisticated understandings of faith, grace, and evil vital for twenty-first-century spirituality. Comparing the ancient Israelite cosmology of Genesis both with the ancient Babylonian cosmology of the Enuma Elish and with the modern Darwinian cosmology of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, Greenway shows how the Bible in Genesis extends far beyond those other cosmologies in its discernment of the transcending, gracious love of God. Standing at the intersection of animal rights, "green" biblical studies, and philosophical theology, Greenway's For the Love of All Creatures will interest and inform a wide range of readers.

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About the Author

William Greenway is Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

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Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802872913
ISBN 13 
9780802872913
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
178