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The Doctrine of Creation: A Constructive Kuyperian Approach is unavailable, but you can change that!

Apart from the doctrine of God, no doctrine is as comprehensive as that of creation. It is woven throughout the entire fabric of Christian theology. It goes to the deepest roots of reality and leaves no area of life untouched. Across the centuries, however, the doctrine of creation has often been eclipsed or threatened by various forms of gnosticism. Yet if Christians are to rise to current...

Kingdom was succumbing to Baal worship, a direction supported in particular by Queen Jezebel, Ahab’s foreign wife (1 Kings 16:29–33). Ahab built a temple for Baal in Samaria, erected an altar there, and made a sacred pole, the symbol of Asherah, the wife of El. The god Baal was all about power. His name means “to own, to rule, to possess.” Baal dominated the Ugaritic pantheon and is associated with rain and thus the fertility of land and animals, with oil and corn, with fire and lightning, with control
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