RT Review
T1 Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives. By Peter C. Bouteneff
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 61
IS 1
SP 327
OP 328
A1 Meredith, Anthony 1936-
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783726431
AB 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.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flq019