The God of Covenant and Creation

Chapp (theology, DeSales U., Pennsylvania) explains that since the rise of modern science during the 17th century, Western theology has been split between deism, which sees God as transcendental and outside the world, and pantheism, which sees God as immanent and identical with the material world. He seeks to overcome the dialectic that pits immanence against transcendence, time against eternity, and historical contingency against rational necessity. His topics include the theophanic cosmos, Newton's divine mechanic and the world of mere matter, Darwin's revolution and the end of teleology, the question of God, creaturely being in a trinitarian context, and the abolition of Man. T&T Clark is an imprint of Continuum. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)