Across
- 3. the fact of the radical difference between God and creation
- 8. it tries to justify or explain God’s actions in light of the existence of evil. God is not the author of evil. God is truly with us, suffering with us and for us and we live in confidence of God’s final victory over sin, evil and suffering.
- 9. the belief that the world is itself divine
- 10. intimate presence to and care for creation
- 11. There is a deep holism inherent in a doctrine of creation that recognizes the goodness of all that God has made. It will threaten to deny the existence and goodness of difference. Recognizes the goodness of all that God has made. Living in a unified world. It's the dramatic difference and life changing opposite of gnostic
- 12. refers to God’s work and will in upholding all of creation.
Down
- 1. describes God’s work in and with all things
- 2. the belief that God and the world are so bound together that God could not rightly exist without the world
- 4. synthesizes and affirms the biblical testimony to the kind of act by which God created everything out of nothing
- 5. refers to a variety of groups in the ancient world that claimed to have access to a special form of gnosis, a secret knowledge available only to the gnostic in group, a knowledge that would open the doors of salvation.
- 6. it divides creation into two: material and spiritual
- 7. God holds back, distant and standoffish
- 12. Christian teaching about God’s continuing work in creation in the doctrine of creation or doctrine of providence