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Creation and Salvation: Dialogue on Abraham Kuyper’s Legacy for Contemporary Ecotheology
Edited by Ernst M. Conradie (University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa)
Biographical note
Ernst M. Conradie (1962-) teaches Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. His monographs in ecotheology include Hope for the Earth (2000), An ecological Christian anthropology (2005), Christianity and ecological theology: Resources for further research (2006) and The church and climate change (2008).
Contributors include Clifford B. Anderson, Vincent E. Bacote, Hans S.A. Engdahl, Dirk van Keulen, Cornelis van der Kooi, Benjamin Myers, Leslie van Rooi, and Günter Thomas.
Contributors include Clifford B. Anderson, Vincent E. Bacote, Hans S.A. Engdahl, Dirk van Keulen, Cornelis van der Kooi, Benjamin Myers, Leslie van Rooi, and Günter Thomas.
Readership
All those interested in Christian ecotheology, in the relationship between creation and salvation from the perspective of systematic theology and in Dutch neo-Calvinism, specifically the legacy of Abraham Kuyper.
Table of contents
Preface
Part 1: Abraham Kuyper’s Legacy for Contemporary Ecotheology: SomeReflections from Within the South African Context — Ernst Conradie
1. Introduction: “How Are They Telling the Story?”
2. Revisiting the Reception of Kuyper in South Africa
3. General and Special Revelation: Kuyper, Bavinck and Beyond
4. Creation and Salvation: Revisiting Kuyper’s Notion of Common Grace
5. Conclusion: Kuyper’s Significance for Ecotheology and the Need for Further Reflection on Creation and Salvation
Part 2: An Intercontinental Dialogue
1. Kuyper in the Civil Sphere — Clifford Anderson
2. A Response and a Strategy — Vincent Bacote
3. Abraham Kuyper and F. J. M. Potgieter: Some Swedish-Lutheran Perspectives - Hans Engdahl
4. Leads for Ecotheology in Arnold A. van Ruler’s Work — Dirk van Keulen
5. “Gratia non tollit naturam, sed perficit” — Kees van der Kooi
6. “Through Him All Things Were Made”: Creation, Redemption, Election - Benjamin Myers
7. The Legacy of Abraham Kuyper and Its Impact on the Theology and Eccle¬sial Identity of the URCSA: A Church Historical Overview — Leslie van Rooi
8. Why Reanimate a Dead Concept? Observations on Promises and Prospects of “Natural Theology” — Günter Thomas
Part 3: Rejoinder: Kuyper’s Significance for Ecotheology and the Need for Further Reflection on Creation and Salvation — Ernst Conradie
Bibliography
Part 1: Abraham Kuyper’s Legacy for Contemporary Ecotheology: SomeReflections from Within the South African Context — Ernst Conradie
1. Introduction: “How Are They Telling the Story?”
2. Revisiting the Reception of Kuyper in South Africa
3. General and Special Revelation: Kuyper, Bavinck and Beyond
4. Creation and Salvation: Revisiting Kuyper’s Notion of Common Grace
5. Conclusion: Kuyper’s Significance for Ecotheology and the Need for Further Reflection on Creation and Salvation
Part 2: An Intercontinental Dialogue
1. Kuyper in the Civil Sphere — Clifford Anderson
2. A Response and a Strategy — Vincent Bacote
3. Abraham Kuyper and F. J. M. Potgieter: Some Swedish-Lutheran Perspectives - Hans Engdahl
4. Leads for Ecotheology in Arnold A. van Ruler’s Work — Dirk van Keulen
5. “Gratia non tollit naturam, sed perficit” — Kees van der Kooi
6. “Through Him All Things Were Made”: Creation, Redemption, Election - Benjamin Myers
7. The Legacy of Abraham Kuyper and Its Impact on the Theology and Eccle¬sial Identity of the URCSA: A Church Historical Overview — Leslie van Rooi
8. Why Reanimate a Dead Concept? Observations on Promises and Prospects of “Natural Theology” — Günter Thomas
Part 3: Rejoinder: Kuyper’s Significance for Ecotheology and the Need for Further Reflection on Creation and Salvation — Ernst Conradie
Bibliography
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