Craig Allert

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  Early Christian Readings Of Genesis One

  $38.99

  Acknowledgments
  Abbreviations
  Introduction

  Part I: Understanding The Context
  1. Who Are The Church Fathers, And Why Should I Care?
  2. How Not To Read The Church Fathers
  3. What Does “Literal” Mean? Patristic Exegesis In Context

  Part II: Reading The Fathers
  4. Basil The Literalist?
  5. Creation Out Of Nothing
  6. The Days Of Genesis
  7. Augustine On “In The Beginning”
  8. On Being Like Moses

  Bibliography
  Author Index
  Subject Index
  Scripture Index

  Additional Info
  Do the writings of the church fathers support a literalist interpretation of Genesis 1? Young earth creationists have maintained that they do. And it is sensible to look to the Fathers as a check against our modern biases.But before enlisting the Fathers as ammunition in our contemporary Christian debates over creation and evolution, some cautions are in order. Are we correctly representing the Fathers and their concerns? Was Basil, for instance, advocating a literal interpretation in the modern sense? How can we avoid flattening the Fathers’ thinking into an indexed source book in our quest for establishing their significance for contemporary Christianity?Craig Allert notes the abuses of patristic texts and introduces the Fathers within their ancient context, since the patristic writings require careful interpretation in their own setting. What can we learn from a Basil or Theophilus, an Ephrem or Augustine, as they meditate and expound on themes in Genesis 1? How were they speaking to their own culture and the questions of their day? Might they actually have something to teach us about listening carefully to Scripture as we wrestle with the great axial questions of our own day?Allert’s study prods us to consider whether contemporary evangelicals, laudably seeking to be faithful to Scripture, may in fact be more bound to modernity in our reading of Genesis 1 than we realize. Here is a book that resets our understanding of early Christian interpretation and the contemporary conversation about Genesis 1.

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  High View Of Scripture

  $27.00

  Contents
  Introduction
  1. Evangelicals, Traditionalism, And The Bible
  2. Introducing New Testament Canon Formation
  3. Canon And Ecclesiology
  4. A Closed Second-Century Canon?
  5. Two Important Fourth-Century Lists
  6. Inspiration And Inerrancy
  Postscript
  Appendix: The Fathers, Scripture, And Inspiration

  Additional Info
  This book shows the diverse histories of the canon’s historical development and its subsequent twenty-first century implications for an evangelical “high view of Scripture”.

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