Description
Book SynopsisAn accessible account of the early church's reading of the creation narrative in Genesis 1, providing contemporary readers with a model for attending to the theological meaning of the text.
Table of ContentsAnd There Was Evening: A Preface
The Authors under Review
The Questions We Pose
A Word about Language
1. And There was Morning: An Introduction
The Text and Its Journey
Silence and Irruption: First References to Genesis 1-3
2. At the Birth of Christian Reflection: Paul and the New Testament
Paul in Context
Paul and Scripture
Paul and the Paradise Narrative: Sin and Death
Paul and the Paradise Narrative: Gender and Marriage
Paul and the Evangelists
Postscript: The Pastoral Epistles
Conclusions
3. Recapitulation: The Second-Century Apologists
The Scriptures of the People
Justin Martyr
Melito of Sardis
Theophilus of Antioch
Irenaeus of Lyons
Conclusions
4. Senses of Scripture: The World of Origen and the Origin of the World
Tertullian
Origen
Conclusions
5. Paradise, Whatever That May Mean: The Cappadocians and Their Origen
Cyril of Jerusalem
Athanasius of Alexandria
Enshrining Origen: The Philocalia
Basil of Caesarea
Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nyssa
Conclusions
6. These Are the Generations: Concluding Observations
Scripture and Exegesis
The Hexaemeron
Paradise
Allegory, Type, and History
The One Thing Needful
Appendix: Genesis 1-3 and 5:1-5
Indexes
