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Man the Creature1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Daniel W. Hardy
Daniel W. Hardy
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The University Birmingham
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It is, of course, no secret that theology is a tissue of many things in interrelation. Begin at any point in it, and you will quickly be led to all the others—or at least the need for all the others. Eschatology requires one to talk about judgment and reconciliation, and they require talking about covenant, but discussion of the covenant requires finding the circumstances or context of the covenant, fallen creatures; and ‘fallen creatures’ brings one to talk about the creature, and in turn to treat his context, creation; and any elucidation of creation requires discussion of the action of God. So it may be seen that each notion demands another as an immediate context, and others as an ultimate context.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 1977 , pp. 111 - 136
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1977

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