This article uses Deweyan pedagogy to reconstruct the Christian doctrine of creation. Two of Dewey's ideas about the starting point of education are employed. First, Dewey's doctrine of interest, especially as developed in ‘Interest in Relation to Training of the Will,’ is used to arbitrate theological debates over the priority given to the doctrines of redemption and creation. Second, Dewey's notion that education should commence with what is practical, with ‘active doing,’ is used to argue that creation should be understood as not only a divine act, but also as a human project.
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