Beginnings Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives

Name: Beginnings Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives
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ISBN: 9780801032332

ISBN-10: 0801032334

ISBN-13: 9780801032332

Edition: 2008

Authors: Peter C. Bouteneff

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What are we missing when we look at the creation narratives of Genesis only or primarily through the lens of modern discourse about science and religion? Theologian Peter Bouteneff explores how first-millennium Christian understandings of creation can inform current thought in the church and in the public square. He reaches back into the earliest centuries of our era to recover the meanings that early Jewish and Christian writers found in the stories of the six days of creation and of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Readers will find that their forbears in the faith saw in the Genesis narrative not simply an account of origins but also a rich teaching about the righteousness of God, the…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.09" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



And There Was Evening: A Preface


The Authors under Review


The Questions We Pose


A Word about Language


Acknowledgments



And There Was Morning: An Introduction


The Text and Its Journey


Silence and Irruption: First References to Genesis 1-3


Summary


Philo: A Coda



At the Birth of Christian Reflection: Paul and the New Testament


Paul in Context


Paul and Scripture


Paul and the Paradise Narrative: Sin and Death


Paul and the Paradise Narrative: Gender and Marriage


Paul and the Evangelists


Postscript: The Pastoral Epistles


Conclusions



Recapitulation: The Second-Century Apologists


The Scriptures of the People


Justin Martyr


Melito of Sardis


Theophilus of Antioch


Irenaeus of Lyons


Conclusions



Senses of Scripture: The World of Origen and the Origin of the World


Tertullian


Origen


Conclusions



Paradise, Whatever That May Mean: The Cappadocians and Their Origen


Cyril of Jerusalem


Athanasius of Alexandria


Enshrining Origen: The Philocalia


Basil of Caesarea


Gregory of Nazianzus


Gregory of Nyssa


Conclusions



These Are the Generations: Concluding Observations


Scripture and Exegesis


The Hexaemeron


Paradise


Allegory, Type, Myth, and History


The One Thing Needful



Genesis 1-3 and Genesis 5:1-5


List of Abbreviations


Bibliography


Modern Author Index


Scripture and Ancient Sources Index


Subject Index