Towards a Baptist Theology of Creation: Thinking in Place with Willie James Jennings and Baptist Ecclesiology
The article takes Willie James Jennings’s vision for a theology of creaturely connection as a starting point for suggesting a distinctively Baptist mode of creation theology — one that both flows out of and may further inform Baptist ecclesiology. It is argued that theologies of creation and church...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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International Baptist Theological Study Centre
2022
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Journal of European Baptist Studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 131-152 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jennings, Willie James 1961-
/ Creation theology
/ Ecclesiology
/ Baptists
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDG Free church NBD Doctrine of Creation NBN Ecclesiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Willie James Jennings
B Creation B Ecclesiology B Place |
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| Summary: | The article takes Willie James Jennings’s vision for a theology of creaturely connection as a starting point for suggesting a distinctively Baptist mode of creation theology — one that both flows out of and may further inform Baptist ecclesiology. It is argued that theologies of creation and church are mutually informing and patterned after one another in ways that tend to go unrecognised. Drawing on the work of Stephen Holmes and Paul Fiddes, it is suggested that the interrelated emphases on responsible discipleship, congregational liberty, and associationalism orient the Baptist imagination toward the particularities of local communities, encouraging a doctrine of creation that analogously begins with and lingers over how a given place is created and sustained by God in its ecological interdependence. |
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| ISSN: | 1804-6444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of European Baptist Studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25782/jebs.v22i2.1067 |