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Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives is unavailable, but you can change that!

Recently renewed debates concerning creation and evolution make contemporary Christians wonder how their forebears in the faith understood the Genesis creation narratives. Were the stories of the six days and of the garden read historically, or did they have some other function? This volume from Peter Bouteneff brings needed attention to early Christian understandings of those key biblical texts....

commandment of God, which not only shows an intimacy between God and humanity unique to the whole of creation, but also indicates a distancing. The separation process continues with the temptation. What is in Eve, and Adam, that is already inclined to listen to the alien voice? Is theirs the behavior of fully realized and sinless human persons? The temptation, to which they accede with little hesitation, proceeds to the transgression, then the trial (and the denial and transmission of culpability),
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