Loving and Letting: A Constructive Reading of Genesis 1
This essay evaluates possible meanings of God's creative ‘let’ in Genesis 1 in order to evaluate how God's generative love of creation forms a paradigm for human love. Beginning with the work of philosopher John Haugeland, who gives four possible meanings of letting-be in his reading of He...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2025
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International journal of systematic theology
Year: 2025, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 148-165 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament NBC Doctrine of God NBD Doctrine of Creation NBE Anthropology VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | This essay evaluates possible meanings of God's creative ‘let’ in Genesis 1 in order to evaluate how God's generative love of creation forms a paradigm for human love. Beginning with the work of philosopher John Haugeland, who gives four possible meanings of letting-be in his reading of Heidegger, this essay argues that creation is best understood in terms of Haugeland's model of letting-be as enabling, in which what is created are conditions of possibility rather than determined outcomes. Understanding God's relationship to creation as making-possible then sets the stage for characterizing right human relations as superabundantly generative rather than simply the absence of conflict. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-2400 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of systematic theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/ijst.12710 |