been some bright spots in the last three centuries. Nevertheless, compared to other doctrines, the doctrine of creation has been neglected; the result is an atrophied doctrine. This is what happened: as the sciences developed in the age of modernity, theologians began to think that they could not compete with the explanatory power and “control of nature” exhibited and promised by the sciences. Instead of rethinking the doctrine of creation, most theologians recast Christian convictions in terms of