What is Creation? Rereading Genesis 1 and 2

God saw; God evaluated; God named; God separated; God brings to the human being; God allows to be named; God reacts to the needy situation of loneliness and helplessness of the human being who is not yet differentiated into man and woman. According to the classical creation texts, all of these activ...

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Main Author: Welker, Michael 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 1991
In: Theology today
Year: 1991, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 56-71
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Summary:God saw; God evaluated; God named; God separated; God brings to the human being; God allows to be named; God reacts to the needy situation of loneliness and helplessness of the human being who is not yet differentiated into man and woman. According to the classical creation texts, all of these activities and reactivities are part of the complex event ‘creation.’ All these reactive activities, which relate to that which is already “produced,” are requisite in order to bring the process of the creation of heaven and earth to a close. God sees, names, separates, and reacts in a differentiated way to the situation and behavior of the human being. What a world lies between this important characteristic of divine creating in the classical creation texts and the concept of unconditional production and causation!
ISSN:2044-2556
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology today
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/004057369104800108