A Survey of Contemporary Perspectives -- In New Creation Esschatology and the Land, Steven L. James argues that in recent new creation conceptions of the final state there is a logical inconsistency between the use of Old Testament texts to inform a renewed eatrh and the exclusion of the territory of Israel from that renewed earth. By examining a select group of creationists, James shows that the exclusion of the territorial restoration of Israel is a new creation conception fails to apprecaiate the role of the particular territory in Old Testament prophetic texts and results in an inconsistent new creationism.