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Beginnings – Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives
Peter C. Bouteneff
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Description for Beginnings – Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives
Paperback. Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives. 240 pages. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HRCC1; HRCM. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight: 358.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ada, MI, United States
ISBN
9780801032332
SKU
V9780801032332
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About Peter C. Bouteneff
Peter C. Bouteneff (DPhil, University of Oxford) is associate professor of theology at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York. He is the author of Sweeter Than Honey: Orthodox Thinking on Dogma and Truth and coauthor of Beyond the East-West Divide: The WCC and "the Orthodox Problem."
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