Acknowledgments
Introduction (Geoffrey H. Fulkerson and Joel Thomas Chopp)
1. William Burt Pope (1822–1903): Primary and Secondary Creation
(Fred Sanders)
2. Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920): Enlightenment, Science, Worldview,
and the Christian Mind (Craig Bartholomew)
3. B. B. Warfield (1851–1921): Evolution, Human Origins, and the
Development of Theology (Bradley J. Gundlach)
4. Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976): Myth, Science, and Hermeneutics
(Joshua W. Jipp)
5. Karl Barth (1886–1968): The Doctrine of Creation and the World
of Science (Katherine Sonderegger)
6. T. F. Torrance (1913–2007): Christ the Key to Creation and
Theological Science (Kevin J. Vanhoozer)
7. Jürgen Moltmann (1926–): The Environment of Science and Theology
(Stephen N. Williams)
8. Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928–2014): Nature, Contingency, and the
Spirit (Christoph Schwöbel)
9. Robert Jenson (1930–2017): History’s God (Stephen John
Wright)
10. Colin E. Gunton (1941–2003): The Triune God, Scientific
Endeavor, and God’s Creation Project (Murray A. Rae)
Afterword by Alister E. McGrath
Contributors
General Index
Scripture Index
Geoffrey H. Fulkerson (PhD, TEDS) is director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is founder and editor-in-chief of HCTU's periodical, Sapientia.
Joel Thomas Chopp (PhD candidate, University of Toronto) is project and communications manager for the Henry Center's Creation Project. He also serves as associate editor of Sapientia.
"This volume represents another valuable contribution of the
Creation Project to our understanding of this vital doctrine. The
thinkers profiled are influential, and the chapter authors are
insightful. As the editors suggest, these case studies frequently
deepen our awareness that seeking appropriate concord between
theology and science is complex but inevitable for biblical
Christians."
*Daniel J. Treier, Knoedler Professor of Theology at Wheaton
College*
"This volume represents another valuable contribution of the
Creation Project to our understanding of this vital doctrine. The
thinkers profiled are influential, and the chapter authors are
insightful. As the editors suggest, these case studies frequently
deepen our awareness that seeking appropriate concord between
theology and science is complex but inevitable for biblical
Christians."
*Daniel J. Treier, Knoedler Professor of Theology at Wheaton
College*
"The person who does not specialize in the work of modern academic
theologians wants to know who the key writers are, with a clear
survey of their distinctive views and contributions, given with
sympathy and even critique. This volume, with its focus on the
specific question of how these theologians have brought the
Christian doctrine of creation into engagement with the sciences,
has achieved exactly that. The editors, representing the Carl Henry
Center for Theological Understanding, have done great service to us
all and furthered the invaluable work of the center. We owe them a
deep debt of gratitude!"
*C. John ("Jack") Collins, professor of Old Testament at Covenant
Theological Seminary, St. Louis*
"How did the most important twentieth-century Protestant
theologians model Christian engagement with the scientific
questions of their time? Rather than staking out a definitive
position on creation and science, each of the ten essays in this
book gives an account of the diverse ways a particular theologian
(Warfield, Barth, Torrance, Moltmann, Pannenberg, etc.) addressed
current scientific issues and how he understood the very
relationship of science and theology in light of the doctrine of
creation. This is a rich feast indeed!"
*J. Richard Middleton, professor of biblical worldview and
exegesis, Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College,
Rochester, New York*
"Science and the Doctrine of Creation presents ten of the most
influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century theologians writing
on dialogue with the sciences, analyzed by ten leading contemporary
scholars in the field. With this new book, Geoffrey Fulkerson and
Joel Chopp confirm the leading position of the Carl F. H. Henry
Center for Theological Understanding as a forum for informed
scholarly debate, bringing theology and science into fruitful
interaction."
*Lydia Jaeger, lecturer and academic dean at the Institut Biblique
de Nogent-sur-Marne, France, and research associate at St. Edmund's
College, University of Cambridge*
"For too long Christians have weaponized the seeming conflict (or
harmony) between science and theology. Good historians urge us
instead to pay attention to the actual practice of particular
theologians and scientists: 'Don't generalize in the abstract; look
and see!' they say. Science and the Doctrine of Creation is a
wonderful example of this salutary approach, drawing on theological
luminaries like Barth, Torrance, and Pannenberg as guides into the
rich meaning of creation. These learned essays remind us that the
dogmatic issues surrounding God's creation extend far beyond the
customary debates over origins. Readers will naturally gravitate to
some chapters over others, but the ten chapters taken together
offer a banquet of stimulating analysis for famished readers. What
a welcome addition to the science and theology dialogue!"
*Hans Madueme, associate professor of theological studies at
Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia*
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