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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...

of several English versions import their own idea of heaven at this point, and say: ‘The LORD looks down from heaven …’ (RSV, NRSV, GNB, JB), thus altering the biblical view. The LORD reigned in the midst, which explains Jesus’ much debated saying about the Kingdom: ‘Behold, the Kingdom of God is in the midst of you’ (Lk. 17:21), meaning that the LORD is enthroned and reigns in the midst of the world. This is how they constructed their world, and so they built the holy of holies at the heart of the
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