RT Article
T1 Towards a Baptist Theology of Creation: Thinking in Place with Willie James Jennings and Baptist Ecclesiology
JF Journal of European Baptist Studies
VO 22
IS 2
SP 131
OP 152
A1 Davidson, Samuel
LA English
PB International Baptist Theological Study Centre
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827940913
AB 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.
K1 Ecclesiology
K1 Place
K1 Willie James Jennings
K1 Creation
DO 10.25782/jebs.v22i2.1067