Joining creation's praise : a theological ethic of creatureliness / Brian Brock.
| Author/creator | Brock, Brian, 1970- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xxvi, 1161 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Ceation and worship: "In the beginning": Living with God, or wayfinding and scripture (Gen. 1:1) -- "Let the Earth bring forth living creatures": Creating and converting (Gen. 1:2-25) -- Knowing and doing, wisdom and spirit -- "Let us make humankind in our image": Relating moral and systematic theology (Gen. 1:26-27) -- "Fill the Earth and subdue it; and have dominion": The problem of dominion (Gen. 1:28-31) -- "Blessed the seventh day and hallowed it": Sabbath time (Gen. 2:1-3) -- Emplacement in creation: "Put in a place": Vocation and the estates (Gen. 2:4-8) -- The tree and the church (Gen. 2:9, 16-17) -- "To till and to keep it": Worship and work (Gen. 2:8, 10-15) -- "Freely eat": Economics and the myth of original markets (Gen. 2:15-16) -- Waste as revealer of creatures made "to till and to keep" (Gen. 2:15) -- Persons in creation: "To see what he would name them": Naming, dominion, and domination (Gen. 2:18-20) -- "All the cattle, and the birds and every animal": Living with animals (Gen. 2:18-20 cont.) -- "This one, this one-this one!": Recognizing persons (gen. 2:21-23A) -- "Flesh of my flesh": Sexual desire and human identity (Gen. 2:23) -- "Become one flesh": Difference and covenant (Gen. 2:24b) -- "A man clings to his wife": Singleness, the institution of marriage, and the reconstitution of counterhearers (Gen. 2:24a) -- Disunion in creation: "Did God say?" Attack on the word (Gen. 3:1-5) -- "Saw that it was good": Antidoxology and the body of sin (Gen. 3:6a) -- "Took, and ate": A new kind of eating (Gen. 3:6b) -- "Surely you will not die": What does it mean to die? (Gen. 3:7) -- "Sewed fig leaves together": Skin, nakedness, and dressing (Gen. 3:7, 21) -- Living together in fallen creation: "I have produced a man": Kinship and homemaking in a fallen world (Gen. 3:16-4:1) -- "Rose up against his brother and killed him": Political authority and violence (Gen. 4:6-8) -- "Put a mark on Cain": Judgment and political authority (Gen. 4:8-16) -- "Enoch built a city": The beginning of cities, building, and technology (Gen. 4:17-26) -- What is a "public"? Babel and Pentecost (Gen. 11:1-9). |
| Abstract | "In this major statement, a leading Christian ethicist shows how confessing we are creatures deeply reshapes every aspect of Christian thinking and living because we were made to embody Christ's image in the world-not as dominators but as conduits of divine life"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2024054983 |
| ISBN | 9781540963260 |
| ISBN | 1540963268 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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