Creation and the church

by James Thwaites

James Thwaites is the author of The Church beyond the Congregation and Renegotiating the Church Contract (Paternoster) and co author of The Church that Works (Word). He has pastored a church in Sydney, is theologian and comic in residence at the Westhill Foundation, and works as a consultant in business and health. This paper explores issues relating to God’s purposes for creation and the role of the church.