Terence E. Fretheim

“The heart of the matter for Israel, therefore, is not subscription to an external code of conduct. It is a matter of…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future)…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“[C]reation" is not simply viewed as a matter of origination or a divine activity chronologically set only "in the beginning.”

— Terence E. Fretheim

“Creation is not simply past; it is not just associated with "the beginning.”

— Terence E. Fretheim

“Sin and evil have their origins in the human will, not in God or in God's plan. At the same time, when…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“God works from within a committed relationship with the world and not on the world from without in total freedom.”

— Terence E. Fretheim

“God is the God of the entire cosmos; God has to do with every creature, and every creature has to do with…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“At the least, the volume of material demonstrates the importance of worship to the narrator. Moreover, the movement in the book of…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“Each created entity is in symbiotic relationship with every other and in such a way that any act reverberates out and affects…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“The life of God will forever include the life of the people of God as well as the life of the world…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“The human is not a fixed entity from the beginning but, along with the rest of creation, is in the process of…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“[T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.”

— Terence E. Fretheim

“[T]hese people lived close to the ground, if you will, and the natural world filled their lives. Creation was a lived reality…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“Our most basic images of God will shape our lives, willy-nilly, including how we think about the larger environment in which we…

— Terence E. Fretheim