God of Covenant and Creation

Larry Chapp develops a true theology of nature that begins and ends with strictly confessional Christian warrants. He begins by showing how modern naturalism arose out of a theological matrix and how it lost its way specifically as naturalism as soon as it rejected that theological matrix. Indeed modern naturalism is not so much a-theological as it is a rival theology to that of the Church. All claims of ultimacy including those of natural science have inherently theological orientations embedded within them - however unconsciously. Therefore what confronts us in the modern world is not so much a choice between a non-theological naturalism and a theological naturalism. Rather what confronts us is a choice between two rival theologies - one agnostic and a-theistic in its implications while the other is revelocentric and Christian.