Schönborn, Christoph, 2007- Chance or Purpose?

Contents

Foreword to the German Edition

1. Creation and Evolution — The Current Debate
   • Creation: Where Does It Come from and Where Is It Going?
   • Theology of Creation and the Worldview of Natural Science
   • Not Losing Wonder
2. “In the Beginning, God Created …” (Genesis 1:1)
   • Belief in Creation as Fanaticism?
   • An Outline of the Theology of Creation
   • What Is the Beginning?
   • Creation and the Freedom of God
3. “He Created Everything according to Its Kind” (cf. Genesis 1:11)
   • A Look at the Biblical Message about Creation
   • Everything Is Created
   • Variety Is What God Wills
   • Order in Variety
   • Evolution and Ascent
   • Creation or Nature?
   • The Common Bond of Creatureliness
   • Creation to the Glory of God
4. “He Upholds the Universe by His Word of Power” (Hebrews 1:3)
   • God Is at Work in the World — A Poetical Approach
   • Creation and Providence
   • Evolution as a Matter of Belief?
   • Continuing Providence
   • New Things in Creation
   • The Incredible Wealth of Variety
5. “You Guide Everything …” — God’s Guidance and the World’s Suffering
   • Critical Questions Put to Belief
   • In Search of an Answer
   • The Best of Worlds?
   • Everything That Is, Is Good — But Limited
   • Can Evil Even Be Good?
   • Pointers toward an Answer
6. “. . . Little Less Than God” (Psalm 8:6) — Man as the Crown of Creation?
   • The World Was Created for the Sake of Man
   • Man — A Part of Nature
   • Immersed in the Stream of Things Coming into Existence
   • The Small Distinction
   • The Choice between Reason and Irrationality
   • “The Fly Was Created before You”
7. “All Things Were Created for Him” (Colossians 1:16) — Christ — The Goal of Creation
   • Christ — Creator of the World
   • “In Him All Things Hold Together”
   • Easter as a New Creation
   • Teilhard de Chardin — Witness to Christ
8. “Subdue the Earth” (Genesis 1:28) — Responsibility for Creation
   • Man’s Dominion in the World
   • Listening to Creation
   • Right and Wrong Understandings of Dominion
   • Responsibility for Creation and Science
9. Summary and Prospect
   • Two Ways of Looking at Things — Two Stories
   • Neo-Darwinism and Neo-Liberalism
   • Neo-Darwinism and the Pedagogy of Fitness
   • The Struggle for an Ethics of Life
   • Conclusion

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