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Bezig met laden... Early Christian Readings Of Genesis One (editie 2018)door Craig D. Allert (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkEarly Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation door Craig D. Allert
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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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Allert provides another excellent resource for understanding Christian Scripture (his first being his book on the authority of Scripture). This one is aimed at understanding how some early church fathers (ECF) interpreted the Genesis 1 creation narrative, in contradistinction to how some young earth creationists (YEC) claim the ECFs interpreted the text.
YECs have claimed that the ECF's view of Genesis 1 supports the YEC reading, at least when these EFCs are "literalists" as opposed to "allegorists." But Allert aptly demonstrates this view to be inaccurate, due to unfamiliarity with the ways in which EFCs understood literalism vs allegory (i.e., literalism was not what it currently means to YEC proponents), and the actual interpretations of the creation texts by EFCs. In short, YECs will not so easily find support for their interpretation of the Genesis 1 passage among the EFCs, and so should stop appealing to them as an authority backing the YEC position.
Among the topics Allert addresses as covered by or related to understanding the ECFs are the following: the difference between the Alexandrian and Antiochian schools of interpretation, creation 'ex nihilo' (from nothing), the meaning of the 'days' of creation, the meaning of 'beginning', and Moses as a model for spiritual formation and growth. This is an important book for appreciating the ways in which the early church understood and used the Genesis 1 passage, allowing for a far wider scope of interpretation today. ( )