ABSTRACT
In this chapter we will look at the theological framework of the biblical creation material in the light of modern science. We will do this by assessing two categories which have been widely used to distinguish dierent types of God’s creative work – creatio ex nihilo (“creation from nothing”) and creatio continua (“continuous creation”). ese categories are often used in the science-theology eld, but they are of uncertain status in biblical ideas of creation, as we shall see. Nevertheless, I will point out that they introduce important considerations for the models of God’s relationship with the world which we see in the Bible. In other words, although the categories were constructed hundreds of years later than the biblical creation texts rst came into written form, yet they introduce a useful way of reading the biblical texts theologically and in conjunction with scientic interpretations.
