Cosmology Quote by 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 live.” quote by Terence E. Fretheim — Download Open image

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

Terence E. Fretheim

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“The heart of the matter for Israel, therefore, is not subscription to an external code of conduct. It is a matter of faithfulness to a relationship with a personal God. The specific commandments have to do with how Israel’s loyalty to God is to be expressed in the ins and outs of daily life in specific times and places. The…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“The life of God will forever include the life of the people of God as well as the life of the world more generally.”

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

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

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