Beginnings
Subtitle: ancient Christian readings of the biblical creation narratives
By: Peter C. Bouteneff.
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801032332
Subjects: Creation -- History of doctrines; Creation -- Biblical teaching; Creationism -- History of doctrines; Creationism -- Biblical teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: And there was evening : a preface; title: The authors under review; title: The questions we pose; title: A word about language; title: And there was morning : an introduction; title: The text and its journey; title: Silence and irruption : first references to Genesis 1:3; title: Philo : a coda; title: At the birth of Christian reflection : Paul and the New Testament; title: Paul in context; title: Paul and Scripture; title: Paul and the paradise narrative : sin and death; title: Paul and the paradise narrative : gender and marriage; title: Paul and the evangelists; title: Postscript : the Pastoral Epistles; title: Recapitulation : the second-century apologists; title: The Scriptures of the people; title: Justin Martyr; title: Melito of Sardis; title: Theophilus of Antioch; title: Irenaeus of Lyons; title: Senses of Scripture : the world of Origen and the origin of the world; title: Tertullian; title: Origen; title: Paradise, whatever that may mean : the Cappadocians and their Origen; title: Cyril of Jerusalem; title: Athanasius of Alexandria; title: Enshrining Origen : the Philocalia; title: Basil of Caesarea; title: Gregory of Nazianzus; title: Gregory of Nyssa; title: These are the generations : concluding observations; title: Scripture and exegesis; title: The Hexaemeron; title: Paradise; title: Allegory, type, and history; title: The one thing needful.