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‘In the Beginning …’: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall is unavailable, but you can change that!

In four superb homilies and a concluding essay, Joseph Ratzinger, provides a clear and inspiring exploration of the Genesis creation narratives. While the stories of the world’s creation and the fall of humankind have often been subjected to reductionism of one sort or another—literalists treat the Bible as a science textbook whereas rationalists divorce God from creation—Ratzinger presents a...

This insight now has to be deepened along two lines. The first thing to be considered is the “that” of creation. This “that” requires a reason; it points to the power that was there at the beginning and that could say: “Let there be.…” In the nineteenth century this was viewed otherwise. The natural sciences were profoundly influenced by the two great theories of the conservation of matter and the conservation of energy. As a result, this whole universe appeared
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