Publisher's Synopsis
The focus of this study is the doctrine of creation - an issue brought into the centre of attention by the modern ecological urgency but also challenged by the postmodern rejection of analogy and meta-narration. From the stance of this modern debate, the author analyses the doctrine of creation in the theologies of Thomas F. Torrance and Eberhard Jungel. Thus, the work becomes both a penetrating examination of a crucial dogmatic issue and the first critical comparison between two main representatives of the theology influenced by Karl Barth.;A "Barthian position" has often been valued as irrevelant for the formulation of a doctrine of creation. yet, the author's contention is that the doctrine of creation has an important function in Torrance's and Jungel's theologies and that they provide many promising suggestions for such a doctrine. However, against the background of the present ecological urgency and the postmortem discourse, their position are also shown to have limitations. torrance's attempt to embrace modern science is scrutinized and criticized particularly for its failure to take contingency seriously and Jungel's soteriological distinctions are criticized for implying a weak notion of divine presence to the realm of bodily and social activities.;From these limitations, the book finally make some suggestions for a doctrine of creation that could lead beyond Torrance's and Jungel's Christocentric doctrine of creation.
