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Retrieving Augustine’s Doctrine of Creation: Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy is unavailable, but you can change that!

How might premodern exegesis of Genesis inform Christian debates about creation today? Imagine a table with three people in dialogue: a young-earth creationist, an old-earth creationist, and an evolutionary creationist. Into the room walks Augustine of Hippo, one of the most significant theologians in the history of the church. In what ways will his reading of Scripture and his doctrine of...

impulse in the human heart to worship as a consequence of our creatureliness, not our fallenness: “Man is one of your creatures, and his instinct is to praise you;”19 “Since he is a part of your creation, he wishes to praise you.”20 In the subsequent paragraphs of the opening of the Confessions, Augustine somewhat problematizes this creaturely instinct toward praise, wondering aloud whether he should begin with supplication for praise or with praise itself. This dilemma is generated by God’s unknowability:
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