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Creation and Chaos Talk: Charting a Way Forward
Creation and Chaos Talk: Charting a Way Forward
Creation and Chaos Talk: Charting a Way Forward
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Talk about chaos is pervasive. Biblical scholars, theologians, and scientists have been using the word chaos for some time, occasionally mingling ideas across disciplines around the shared word. Quite often, discussions of chaos center on the issues of creation's origin and nature, as well as on God's creative methods and relationship to creation. Eric M. Vail investigates the current uses of the word chaos in those areas. A new way of articulating creation out of nothing is offered as both helpful and appropriate in our current milieu. He suggests where we ought to focus our use of the word chaos in Christian discourse and argues that chaos is more fitting for naming where creation has gone awry rather than for naming that state out of which creation comes to be.
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Release dateJun 7, 2012
ISBN9781630874179
Creation and Chaos Talk: Charting a Way Forward
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Eric M. Vail

Eric M. Vail is the senior pastor of First Church of the Nazarene in Saint Joseph, Missouri.

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