Creator and Creation according to Calvin on Genesis / Rebekah Earnshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Earnshaw, Rebekah, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Reformed historical theology

Reformed Historical Theology ; volume 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.

Calvin, Jean.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564. In primum Mosis librum, qui Genesis vulgo dicitur.

Bible. Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--16th century.

Bible.

Bible. Genesis.

Creation--History of doctrines.

Creation.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Gottingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2020]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. In the Beginning

1.1 Creation and Genesis

1.2 Calvin on Genesis

1.3 Calvin and Creation

1.4 Biblical Theologian

1.5 Piety and the Usefulness of Scripture

1.6 Creator, Act of Creation, Creatures, and Providence

2. Creator

2.1 And

2.2 Knowledge of God the Creator

2.3 God the Creator

2.3.1 L'Eternal

2.3.2 Infinitely Distinct

2.3.3 Abundantly for Creatures

2.3.4 Virtues

2.4 Calvin's Creator: Full, Engaged, and Concrete

3. The Agent and Act of Creation

3.1 A Trinitarian Account

3.2 Theological Cosmology

3.3 From Nothing

3.4 In and with Time

3.5 A Purposeful Beginning

4. Creatures

4.1 Creaturely Goodness

4.1.1 Beginning of Creaturely Goodness

4.1.2 End of Creaturely Goodness

4.1.3 Knowing Creaturely Goodness

4.2 Created Order

4.2.1 Invisible and Spiritual Creation

4.2.2 Visible Non-Animate Creation

4.2.3 Visible Animate Creation

4.3 Corruption and Disorder

4.3.1 Its Source

4.3.2 Its Total Scope

4.3.3 Disordered Animals and Humans

4.4 Use of Created Goodness, Order, Corruption, and Disorder

5. Providence

5.1 Providence and the Promise: Abraham

5.2 Providence, the Church, and the Wicked: Joseph

5.2.1 Fatherly Care for the Church

5.2.2 Restraining the Wicked

5.2.3 The Providential Agent and Means

5.3 Creatures under the Creator's Providential Governance

6. In the End

Bibliography

Sources and Translations

Other Sources

Notes:

"This dissertation has been revised for publication"--title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783647540832

3647540838

Publisher Number:

99985761218

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.