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Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed
Simon Oliver
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Description for Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed
Paperback. Series: Guides for the Perplexed. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 454.
This addition to our popular Guides for the Perplexed series tackles a subject that is enjoying renewed debate: Christianity, along with Judaism and Islam, claims that the universe is not a brute fact. It is 'created'. But what do we mean by 'creation'? Do we mean that the universe is 'designed'? Is it the product of an evolutionary process? How are creatures related to God, and does God act within creation? Simon Oliver begins with the background to the Christian theology of creation in Greek philosophy and the Old Testament. This provides a route into understanding ... Read more
This addition to our popular Guides for the Perplexed series tackles a subject that is enjoying renewed debate: Christianity, along with Judaism and Islam, claims that the universe is not a brute fact. It is 'created'. But what do we mean by 'creation'? Do we mean that the universe is 'designed'? Is it the product of an evolutionary process? How are creatures related to God, and does God act within creation? Simon Oliver begins with the background to the Christian theology of creation in Greek philosophy and the Old Testament. This provides a route into understanding ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Guides for the Perplexed
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780567656087
SKU
V9780567656087
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About Simon Oliver
Simon Oliver is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, UK.
Reviews for Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed
This year I learned a lot from Simon Oliver's Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed, which begins with Genesis and ends with the contemporary environmental crisis - but its heart is an account of Thomas Aquinas's profound theological vision that is almost dazzling in its lucidity.
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