Creation

Margaret Barker contributes a characteristically Christian voice to contemporary theological debates on the environment. Most of the issues we face today were not those that faced the early Christian community and so there are often no directly relevant biblical teachings. Barker's starting point is the question of what Jesus himself would have believed about the Creation? What could the early Church have believed about the Creation? She then shows how much of this belief is embedded, often unrecognized, in the New Testament and early Christian texts. It was what people assumed as the norm, the world view within which they lived and expressed their faith. Barker deals with such arguments as, 'But the New Testament says nothing about this', and establishes the general principles of a Christian view of Creation. Starting with how the Bible was understood by early Christians, Barker looks briefly at the history of a text or symbol, before examining what later Christian teachers did with that text or symbol. The idea that Adam was the steward of the creation, for example, is entirely unbiblical, and was imported into the text with disastrous results. Some of what she says will show how current teaching would have been unfamiliar to the first Christians, not just in application but in basic principles.

ISBN 0567441032   Pages 240 ISBN13 9780567441034 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Weight (grammes) 649 Imprint T.& T.Clark Ltd   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 01 Nov 2009   Width (mm) 156 Writer of foreword Patriarch Bartholomew   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY 231.765   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

Introduction; 1. The Six Days; 2. Day One; 3. The Bonds of Creation; 4. The Seventh Day.; 5. Adam; 6. The Two Trees.; 7. Wisdom; 8. Renewing the covenant; 9. The Kingdom.

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