God in creation: a reflection on Jurgen Moltmann's theology

Jurgen Moltmann's fine book God in Creation makes a contribution to one type of rural theology. Although the book is concerned with the totality of the relationship between God and the created order, it is, nevertheless and consequently, a stimulus to reflection on a theology of the environment and a theology of the rural church. The book itself was delivered in 1984-85 in the Gifford lectures (which tend to deal with science and religion) and this article places it both within the biography of Moltmann himself and in relation to his intellectual oeuvre.