What is Good for Christ is Good for the Cosmos: Affirming the Resurrection of Creation

Abstract

Many churches and scholars affirm that God renews the cosmos at the eschaton. Some scholars have begun to say the cosmos is resurrected in Christ, without much warrant for that discourse. With a focus on N.T. Wright and Richard Middleton, this article shows why some scholars have begun to say that the creation is resurrected in Christ, along with the relative paucity of an argument for this claim. The article begins to fulfill this need by making a theological argument from biblical sources, utilizing an interpretive approach outlined by David Yeago. It suggests that, for some scholars, the idea that the creation is not destroyed at the eschaton may motivate resistance to the claim that creation is resurrected.