God and World in the Old Testament Quotes

“The life of God will forever include the life of the people of God as well as the life of the world more generally.”
― Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

“Each created entity is in symbiotic relationship with every other and in such a way that any act reverberates out and affects the whole, shaking this web with varying degrees of intensity.”
― Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

“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, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

“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 evil do enter into the life of the world, they do not become constitutive of what is means to be human (or any other creature).”
― Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

“The human is not a fixed entity from the beginning but, along with the rest of creation, is in the process of becoming.”
― Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

“Creation is not simply past; it is not just associated with "the beginning.”
― Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

“[T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.”
― Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

“God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not wholly determined by the past; God does bring the "new" into existence. [...] God also creates in and through creaturely activity.”
― Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

“[C]reation" is not simply viewed as a matter of origination or a divine activity chronologically set only "in the beginning.”
― Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

“[T]hese people lived close to the ground, if you will, and the natural world filled their lives. Creation was a lived reality for them prior to the development of specific ideas about creation.”
― Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation

“God is the God of the entire cosmos; God has to do with every creature, and every creature has to do with God, whether they recognize it or not.”
― Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation