The spirit moved over the face of the waters: The holy spirit and the created order

International Journal of Systematic Theology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 190-204

  Gunton, Colin ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61149122344     PISSN: 14631652     EISSN: 14682400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1463-1652.00080     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Gordon J. Wenham, Genesis 1-15, Word Biblical Commentary, 1 (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1987), pp. 15f.
2. Wenham, Genesis, p. 17.
3. D. Lyle Dabney, '"Justified by the Spirit": Soteriological Reflections on the Resurrection', International Journal of Systematic Theology 3 (2001), p. 49.
4. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, trans. ed. G.W. Bromiley and T.F. Torrance (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1957-75), III/3, §50, pp. 289-368.
5. Barth, CD, III/3, p. 299.
6. H.H. Schmid, 'Creation, Righteousness and Salvation: "Creation Theology" as the Broad Horizon of Biblical Theology', in Creation in the Old Testament, ed. B.W. Anderson (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984), pp. 102-17.
7. Basil, On the Holy Spirit, XV. 38.
8. 'Therefore, then, the Holy Trinity works every activity according to the manner stated, not divided according to the number of hypostases, but one certain motion and disposition of goodwill occurs, proceeding from the Father through the Son to the Spirit.' Gregory of Nyssa's Concerning We Should Think of Saying That There Are Not Three Gods, to Ablabius', The Trinitarian Controversy, trans. and ed. William G. Rusch (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980), p. 155.
9. Aquinas, In Sent. 14, 1, 1, c.
10. I owe this reference to Bruce Marshall, 'What Does the Trinity have to do with Faith and Reason?', Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, May 2001.
11. Aquinas, SCG IV, 20 (no. 3571),
12. cited by Bruce Marshall, Trinity and Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 114.
13. Martin Luther, Lectures on Genesis chapters 1-5, Luther's Works, 1, edited by J. Pelikan (St Louis: Concordia. 1958), p. 12.
14. Luther, Lectures on Genesis, p. 9.
15. Wolfhart Pannenberg, Toward a Theology of Nature: Essays on Science and Faith, ed. Ted Peters (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993), pp. 126-7.
16. See my '"Until He Comes": Towards an Eschatology of Church Membership', in Called to One Hope: Perspective, on the Life to Come. A Selection of Drew Lectures on Immortality delivered at Spurgeon's College, ed. John Colwell (Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 2000), pp. 252-66.
17. Also in International Journal of Systematic Theology 3 (2001), pp. 187-200.
18. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, II.2.12-17, ed. J.T. McNeill, trans. and indexed F.L. Battles (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960), Library of Christian Classics 20, pp. 270-7.
19. Gabriel Josipovici, The Book of God (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988), p. 102.
20. From Alexander Solzhenitsin, Robert K. Johnston, Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000), p. 90.
21. 'All meals are intrinsically religious occasions, indeed sacrifices, and were so understood especially in Israel. For all life belongs intimately to God, so that the killing involved in eating - which we do not at all avoid by eating vegetables - is an intrusion into his domain ... Sharing a meal is therefore always a communal act of worship and establishes fellowship precisely before the Lord'. Robert W. Jenson, Systematic Theology, vol. 1, The Triune God;
22. vol. 2, The Works of God. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 1999), 2, p. 185. I am also grateful to Shirley Martin for ensuring that I took this aspect of the topic with due seriousness.
23. Barth, CD, III/4, p. 324: 'Life cannot for us be a supreme principle at all, though it can be a sphere in relation to which ethics has to investigate the content and consequences of God's command.' Cf. also pp. 349-50.
24. Pannenberg, Toward a Theology of Nature, p. 154.
25. See Michael Banner, Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), especially chapter 2.