How Is Creation Good | Craig Bartholomew
Channel: Henry Center
Date: 08/08/2018

Lecture Title: The Goodness of Creation and Its Ethical Implications

Genesis 1 repeatedly says that God saw that his emerging creation was good and then that it was very good. This lecture explores what this goodness (tob) means in its ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and canonical context and its implications for a Christian doctrine of creation and the comprehensive ethical vision evoked by this emphasis. An assessment will be made of the extent to which (evangelical) Christians are faithful to this vision and what such faithfulness might look like today.

Craig G. Bartholomew (PhD Bristol University) is Director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics. He was a 2019–20 Henry Resident Fellow. He has edited and written many books, including The God Who Acts in History: The Significance of Sinai (Eerdmans, 2020) and Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition: A Systematic Introduction (IVP Academic, 2021).

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