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Creation: A Biblical Vision for the Environment is unavailable, but you can change that!

Margaret Barker contributes a characteristically Christian voice to contemporary theological debates on the environment. Most of the issues we face today weren’t the same as the early Christian community and often there were no relevant biblical teachings. Barker’s starting point is the question of what Jesus himself would have believed about the creation and what could the early Church have...

LORD his father (Ps. 89. 27), meaning that he was the human presence of the LORD. He, like Adam was the image. Jesus was ‘the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation’ (Col. 1:15), in other words, he was the second Adam. The proof text in Hebrews 1:6, however, has been found at Qumran in a significantly longer form than has survived in the current Hebrew,104 but very similar to the Old Greek translation. The shorter form lacks the lines used as the proof text, and so has nothing
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