Doctrine of Creation

What is it about?

The doctrine of creation and the knowledge of nature have come into tension in modernity. Against this background, the article discusses basic problems of a theology of nature starting from a systematic theology of religious communication. The dogmatic statements about the world as God’s creation are not about a description of nature and reality, but about a reflexive account of Christian-religious communication. The object of the doctrine of creation is thus the world-related contents of the Christian religion as well as the function these have in it. Thus, both the critique of the representational version of the doctrinal tradition’s conception of creation and its reflexive turn in twentieth-century Protestant theology are taken up and carried forward in such a way that the belief in creation is not understood as a general qualification of the world, but is related to the concrete contents of religious communication

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Why is it important?

The article proposes a new formulation of the traditional doctrine of creation on the basis of a systematic theology of religious communication. This approach is intended to avoid a coexistence of religious belief in creation and scientific explanation of the world, as well as their being pushed into one another. By transferring the belief in creation to the Christian-religious communication, the latter thematizes how religious contents are created in the Christian religion