Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives. By Peter C. Bouteneff
In the space of six chapters, including an introduction and conclusion, this learned and far-reaching book explores not only the way in which the early church treated Genesis 1 and 2 but, more centrally, what precise sense, if any, it gave to the words ‘human’ and ‘Adam’. Almost the entire emphasis...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 327-328 |
| Review of: | Beginnings (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Acad., 2008) (Meredith, Anthony)
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| Summary: | In the space of six chapters, including an introduction and conclusion, this learned and far-reaching book explores not only the way in which the early church treated Genesis 1 and 2 but, more centrally, what precise sense, if any, it gave to the words ‘human’ and ‘Adam’. Almost the entire emphasis of the book is on Greek writers, beginning with Philo and St Paul in chapter 2 and ending, shortly before the close of the fourth century, with the Cappadocian Fathers in chapter 5. With the exception of Tertullian, Bouteneff hardly, if at all, deals with the Latin Fathers and avoids, above all, St Augustine, despite the fact that he wrote a lengthy commentary on the literal meaning of Genesis. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq019 |