Compiled in honor of esteemed teacher and scholar Ben C. Ollenburger, The Earth Is the Lord's brings together a diverse group of scholars with specializations across the Christian canon to address creation in the Bible, God as Creator, and God's relationship with creation.
The essays in this volume cover topics ranging from creation theology, the symbolic devastation and renewal of land, cycles of creation, creation and peace, and the covenant as the purpose of creation. Moreover, while previous studies on this topic have focused almost exclusively on the Hebrew Bible, the current volume gives equal weight to the New Testament as a vital source for approaching the Bible's theologies of creation.
The Earth Is the Lord's advances the scholarly and ecclesial conversations surrounding creation and will be an indispensable resource for biblical studies scholars, seminary students, and Christian congregational leaders and teachers.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Walter Brueggemann, Andrea Dalton Saner, Theodore Hiebert, Loren L. Johns, Safwat Marzouk, David Rensberger, Darrin W. Snyder Belousek, Willard Swartley, Patricia K. Tull, Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld, and Gordon Zerbe.
Show moreCompiled in honor of esteemed teacher and scholar Ben C. Ollenburger, The Earth Is the Lord's brings together a diverse group of scholars with specializations across the Christian canon to address creation in the Bible, God as Creator, and God's relationship with creation.
The essays in this volume cover topics ranging from creation theology, the symbolic devastation and renewal of land, cycles of creation, creation and peace, and the covenant as the purpose of creation. Moreover, while previous studies on this topic have focused almost exclusively on the Hebrew Bible, the current volume gives equal weight to the New Testament as a vital source for approaching the Bible's theologies of creation.
The Earth Is the Lord's advances the scholarly and ecclesial conversations surrounding creation and will be an indispensable resource for biblical studies scholars, seminary students, and Christian congregational leaders and teachers.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Walter Brueggemann, Andrea Dalton Saner, Theodore Hiebert, Loren L. Johns, Safwat Marzouk, David Rensberger, Darrin W. Snyder Belousek, Willard Swartley, Patricia K. Tull, Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld, and Gordon Zerbe.
Show moreRyan D. Harker is an independent scholar and Pastor of West Clinton Mennonite Church in Wauseon, Ohio. He is coeditor of Rooted and Grounded: Essays on Land and Christian Discipleship.
Heather L. Bunce is Professor of Hebrew and Director of Library Services at Great Lakes Christian College in Lansing, Michigan. She is coeditor of Real Christian Fellowship.
“The Earth Is the Lord’s brings much to the contemporary Christian
conversation surrounding the relationship between God, humanity,
and creation.”—Jacob R. Evers Review of Biblical Literature
“This collection of essays, authored by his colleagues and
students, and edited by Ryan D. Harker and Heather L. Bunce, is a
fitting tribute to a most deserving scholar. However, at our
particular moment in the Anthropocene epoch, when only the most
reactionary of pundits and the most craven of politicians deny the
potentially catastrophic ecological consequences of global climate
change, The Earth Is the Lord’s, which offers “essays on Creation
and the Bible,” is a timely book as well.”—Timothy J. Sandoval
Horizons in Biblical Theology
“Honoring the important contributions made by Ben Ollenburger to
the elucidation of biblical creation theology, the writers have
prepared the soil for further deliberation on theological and
ethical challenges faced by Anabaptist Christians today. The
promise is not just ecological, but includes insight into what it
means to be human, the value of work, a theology of the body, of
gender and sexuality, and much more.”—Paul Keim Mennonite Quarterly
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