God in Cosmic History: A Response to My Critics

With notable insight and erudition, Johanne S.T. Kristensen, Lowell Gustafson, and Derek Nelson have each offered an exposition and critique of the book, God in Cosmic History. This article is a response to these critics. The encyclopedic and absorbing discipline known as big history courageously attempts to integrate human history with natural history and ecological ethics. The focal and enduring issue discussed here is this: should the materialist ideology accompanying the big historian's narrative be supplemented by, or replaced by, a theological rendering of the historical narrative that includes the creating and redeeming God?