Inge asked about this book:
Physics, Philosophy and Theology ed. Robert John Russell and others
I reviewed it several years ago for Isis, and like it quite a bit. IMO the
most important essay is that by Ted Peters, a Lutheran theologian who argues
convincingly that the church's affirmation of creatio ex nihilo, in its
fullest sence, arose out of their experience with the resurrection--a real
event in which God's power over nature was revealed. Thus the early church
accepted the Jewish view of creatio ex nihilo (developed in the
intertestamental period, not actually in Genesis explicitly), on the basis
of their own authentic experience of God's power and sovereignty over the
world.
Lots of other essays in that book are also good, I'm not meaning to
shortchange anyone. I didn't write about Peters' essay in my review,
however, b/c the audience (professional historians of science) generally
wouldn't get the point, they just wouldn't get it. And there were several
other articles whose points they would get, so I talked about those.
Ted Davis
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