Faith in the God of the Bible requires belief in the creation of the world by him. This regards the world as it is described by natural science. The biblical report on the creation of the world uses the description of nature as it was available then. Similarly, contemporary science must be used today in theological reaching about creation. The biblical report is authoritative as an example of such use, not in the details of now obsolete understanding of nature. Contemporary science is more in "consonance" with a Christian view of the world as creation than the science of earlier centuries was. It suggests a conception of a history of nature from the "Big Bang" all the way to the emergence of life and of humanity. Theologians describe this as a process of continuous creation. Even the Darwinian doctrine of evolution fits into such a picture, as British theologians argued with Charles Gore as early as 1889. The incarnation and the eschatological completing will then be considered as completing the progress of creation, which is empowered along its way by the creative spirit of God operating in it like a field of force.

Enthalten in:
Theologische Literaturzeitung; 2006/2 Monatsschrift für das gesamte Gebiet der Theologie und Religionswissenschaft (2006)

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Serie / Reihe: Theologische Literaturzeitung

Personen: Pannenberg, Wolfhart

Schlagwörter: Glaube Naturwissenschaft