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| Preface | |
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| 'Maker of Heaven and Earth': An Introduction to some Essential Concepts | |
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| The universality of belief in creation | |
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| Some important concepts | |
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| What Kind of World? The Bible, the Greeks and the Question of Ontology | |
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| The Bible: (1) the Old Testament | |
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| The Bible: (2) the New Testament | |
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| The Greeks: (1) early cosmology | |
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| The Greeks: (2) Plato and Aristotle | |
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| Later Greek cosmology | |
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| Ontology | |
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| Towards a Theology of Mediation: Aspects of the Early History | |
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| The theology of creation | |
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| Hermeneutics: the fate of Genesis in the Hellenistic world | |
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| Gnosticism | |
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| Epistemology and cosmology: Justin Martyr | |
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| Trinitarian mediation: Irenaeus of Lyons | |
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| Creation, redemption and cosmology: Origen of Alexandria | |
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| Systematic questions | |
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| Creation out of Nothing: Eternity. Time and the Will of God | |
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| Being and willing: Athanaisius | |
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| The ontological homogeneity of the creation: Basil of Caesarea | |
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| Augustine of Hippo: (1) creation 'out of nothing' | |
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| Augustine of Hippo: (2) 'in the beginning' | |
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| The doctrine of creation out of nothing: implications | |
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| The doctrine of creation out of nothing: some remaining questions | |
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| Aristotle, Creation and the Rise of Science | |
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| The high Middle Ages: Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Creation and the rise of science: (1) historical dimensions | |
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| Creation and the rise of science: (2) intellectual considerations | |
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| A New Theology of Nature: From Scotus to Kant | |
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| The later Middle Ages: (1) John Duns Scotus | |
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| The later Middle Ages: (2) William of Ockham | |
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| The loss of the doctrine of creation in the modern world | |
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| Immanuel Kant | |
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| The necessity of a theology of nature | |
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| Returning to the Trinity: A Tale of Five Centuries | |
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| Luther and Calvin | |
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| After the Reformation | |
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| Two twentieth-century theologies: Karl Barth and Wolfhart Pannenberg | |
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| Creation and redemption: (1) Karl Barth | |
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| Creation and redemption: (2) 'the two hands of God' | |
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| Redemption and evil | |
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| Creation and Providence: God's Interaction with the World | |
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| Some preliminary definitions | |
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| Dogmatic distinctions | |
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| The mediation of providential action | |
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| Providence and the problem of 'Darwinism' | |
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| The theology of nature again | |
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| Creation and New Creation: In the Image and Likeness of God | |
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| The point of the image | |
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| Biblical considerations | |
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| Christological considerations | |
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| The nature of the image: creation and redemption again | |
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| The matter of the image | |
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| Eschatology and Ethics | |
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| The problem of an eschatology of creation | |
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| An alternative eschatology | |
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| The point of eschatology | |
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| Eschatology and ethics | |
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| Towards an ethic of createdness | |
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| From eschatology to worship | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |