Genesis and Christian theology /
edited by Nathan MacDonald, Mark W. Elliott and Grant Macaskill.
- Grand Rapids, MI : W.B. Eerdmans, c2012
- xxiii, 341 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 23 cm.
Proceedings of a conference held July 14-18, 2009 at St. Andrews.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genesis and salvation history. Manifest diversity : the presence of God in Genesis / William P. Brown -- Beginning with the ending / R.R. Reno -- The akedah in canonical and artistic perspective / Gary A. Anderson -- Joseph in the likeness of Adam : narrative echoes of the fall / Timothy J. Stone -- "Before Abraham was, I am" : the book of Genesis and the genesis of Christology / Knut Backhaus -- Genesis 2-3 : a case of inner-biblical interpretation / Christoph Levin. Genesis and divine-human relations. Gregory of Nyssa on language, naming God's creatures, and the desire of the discursive animal / Eric Daryl Meyer -- Image, identity, and embodiment : Augustine's interpretation of the human person in Genesis 1-2 / Matthew Drever -- Poetry and theology in Milton's Paradise lost / Trevor Hart -- Sex or violence? : thinking again with Genesis about fall and original sin / Walter J. Houston. Genesis and the natural world. Interpreting the story of creation : a case study in the dialogue between theology and science / David Fergusson -- Humans, animals, and the environment in Genesis 1-3 / Richard Bauckham -- Reading Genesis in Borneo : work, guardianship, and companion animals in Genesis 2 / Michael S. Northcott -- Covenantal ecology : the inseparability of covenant and creation in the book of Genesis / Brandon Frick -- "And without thorn the rose"? : Augustine's interpretations of Genesis 3:18 and the intellectual tradition / Karla Pollmann -- Toward a creational perspective on poverty : Genesis 1:26-28, image of God, and its missiological implications / Pascal Daniel Bazzell. Genesis and the people of God. Did God choose the patriarchs? : reading for election in the book of Genesis / Nathan MacDonald -- Rebekah's twins : Augustine on election in Genesis / Ellen T. Charry -- Abraham and Aeneas : Genesis as Israel's foundation story / R. Walter L. Moberly -- Genesis and human society : the learning and teaching people of God / Mark W. Elliott -- Food, famine and the nations : a canonical approach to Genesis / Stephen B. Chapman.