This Earthly Life Matters

Arnold A. van Ruler was one of the most original Dutch Reformed theologians of the twentieth century. Through the term "re-creation" (Dutch: herschepping) he offers a radical affirmation of God''s sustained loyalty to that which is material, bodily, and earthly. God''s work of salvation and of consummation is necessary but then for the sake of creation. The path that he followed was diametrically ...