Re: lame creation concepts

From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 10:51:28 EDT

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    Howard J. Van Till wrote:
    >
    > >From: George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>
    >
    > > Process theologians often say that one has to speak of
    > > God and the world together (as in Cobb's _God and the World_). In an
    > > important sense it
    > > is the God + World combination that corresponds to "God" in traditional
    > theologies.
    > >
    > > But traditional theologies have their own problems. I find it strange &
    > > somewhat disheartening that on this list people think that they can discuss
    > > "God" &
    > > "creation" in some detail without ever referring to the one who by & for
    > > whom, according
    > > to the NT (Jn.1:3, I Cor.8:6, Col.1:16-17, Heb.1:2), all things have been
    > > created. To
    > > put it bluntly, most of the discussions of creation here - from the
    > > standpoints of both
    > > process thought & more traditional theism - are of very little value
    > > because of this defect.
    >
    > "...very little value..." ... "defect..."
    >
    > Those strong judgments apply ONLY IF one begins with a total commitment to
    > the Lutheran Christocentric theological system (and a supportive
    > hermeneutical stance) that you have so often advocated on this list.
    >
    > Perhaps we are finding "value" primarily in those things (texts, arguments,
    > metaphysical propositions...) that support our theological commitments and
    > "defects" in those things that do not.

            Are the passages to which I referred - & much else in the NT with a strongly
    christocentric emphasis - the exclusive property of Lutherans?

                                                    Shalom,
                                                    George

    George L. Murphy
    gmurphy@raex.com
    http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/



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