Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Points of Departure -- 1 A Genealogy of the Christian Colonial Mindset: Ex Nihilo from Disputed Beginnings to Orthodox Origins -- 2 Ex Nihilo and the Origin of an Empire -- 3 Ex Nihilo, Erasure, and "Discovery" -- 4 The Cogito, Ex Nihilo, and the Legacy of John Locke -- 5 The Creation Ex Nihilo of Terra Nullius Lands: Omnipotent Nations and the Logic of Global-Colonization -- 6 From Epistemologies of Domination to Grounded Thinking -- 7 Opening Words about God onto: Creatio Continua -- 8 Creatio Continua 'All the Way Down': A Post-Colonial, Planetary Understanding of Continuing Creation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Winner of the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, 2009. This book argues that the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo sets up a support system for a "logic of domination" over others. It follows a genealogical method in examining how the concept of creation out of nothing materializes in the world throughout different periods in the history of the Christian West
