The main question is about the present relationship between Creation and Creator, not about how Creation came to be. Trinitarian creation is also getting discussed more nowadays. Creation and Cosmology. Gilkey likewise sees both creatio ex nihilo and creatio continua in the history of creation doctrine, but seems to stress the latter or the combination of the two. Interaction models of revelation's consonance with science are thus becoming more common.
Consonance draws on theory of language, esp. metaphor.
Russell wants to re-emphasize the creatio continua aspect of creation, its ontological dependence on God. If creatio ex nihilo is merely the first part of creatio continua , then we have a more factual basis for creatio continua . Finitude would be defined spatially, temporally, and in other ways. Philosophy, theology, and science all are working together and overlapping. Trinitarian doctrines of God probably will help get to the next step of looking at some theological implications of the above.