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

by April Cordero Maskiewicz, Michael Lodahl

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.

160 pages, Paperback

First published September 21, 2014

Reviews

[Nate Duriga · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book giving a theological framework for caring for God's creation that is succinct and insightful. It fleshes out what being made "in the image of God" means for our relationship to creation, and draws in rich ways from relevant Wesleyan thought.