Creation stories in dialogue
Subtitle: the Bible, science, and folk traditions : Radboud prestige lectures in New Testament
By: by R. Alan Culpepper ; edited by R. Alan Culpepper, Jan G. van der Watt
Contributors: Van der Watt, J. G. (Jan Gabriël), 1952- editor
Series: Biblical interpretation series -- volume 139; Biblical interpretation series -- v. 139.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789004304420; 9789004306677
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Creation; Bible
Notes: "The second Radboud Prestige Lectures in New Testament were held in April 2013 at the Radboud University Nijmegen"--Preface.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prestige Lecture.; title: Children of God : evolution, cosmology, and Johannine thought  -- R. Alan Culpepper -- Part 1. Creation and science.; title: From mapping to meaning  -- David Christian; title: Big history and big questions  -- Ted Peters; title: Big history, scientific naturalism, and Christian hope  -- John F. Haught; title: The creation stories we live   -- Graham B. Walker; title: Created agencies of creation in Genesis 1  -- Kurt Anders Richardson; title: The evolution of the consciousness of God and the Gospel of John  -- Randall C. Zachman -- Part 2. Creation stories in religion.; title: Creation out of nothing and the Hebrew Bible  -- Ellen van Wolde; title: Why the world, why the universe? : a Buddhist perspective  -- Paul van der Velde; title: The lost land and the earth mother : African mythology and the issue of land in southern Africa  -- Attie van Niekerk; title: The Johannine logos-hymn : a cross-cultural celebration of God's creative-redemptive work  -- Paul N. Anderson; title: Children of God and Aristotelian epigenesis in the Gospel of John  -- Adele Reinhartz; title: Cosmos, reality, and God in the letters of John  -- Jan van der Watt; title: The cosmological vision of John : the evangelist as observer and interpreter  -- Mary L. Coloe; title: Summary and reflections : the dialogue about stories of origin -- R. Alan Culpepper.