Renewal in Love: Living Holy Lives in God's Good Creation - Paperback

by Michael Lodahl (Author), April Cordero Maskiewicz (Author)

John and Charles Wesley often use the New Testament language of renewal in God's image, and sometimes renewal in love, to describe the life of Christian holiness. In Renewal in Love, theologian Michael Lodahl and biologist April Maskiewicz explore the implications of the idea of renewal in the image of God when it is planted deeply in the soil of Genesis 1.Our renewal in the image of God occurs through the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ our Lord. But too often the redemption freely given through Jesus is not connected, either in our thinking or our doing, to the doctrine of creation. The argument of this volume is that Christian holiness, rightly understood, is a renewal and deepening of God's calling upon human beings to care for the Creator's beloved creation.

Author Biography

MICHAEL LODAHL is a professor of theology at Point Loma Nazarene University. An ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene, he has served congregations in California, Georgia, and Idaho. He received his PhD in theological studies from Emory University and has studied extensively in Israel and Jordan. Lodahl and his wife, Janice, live in San Diego. April Cordero Maskiewicz is an associate professor of biology at Point Loma Nazarene University. Her current research focuses on developing more effective approaches for teaching ecology and evolution that are grounded in the learning sciences research so students will develop not only content knowl edge but also biological ways of thinking and rea soning about the living world.