Margaret Barker contributes a characteristically Christian voice to contemporary theological debates on the environment. Most of the issues we face today weren’t the same as the early Christian community and often there were no relevant biblical teachings. Barker’s starting point is the question of what Jesus himself would have believed about the creation and what could the early Church have believed about the creation. She then shows how much of this belief is embedded, often unrecognized, in the New Testament and early Christian texts. It was what people assumed as the norm, the worldview within which they lived and expressed their faith. Barker establishes the general principles of a Christian view of creation. Some of what she says will show how current teaching would have been unfamiliar to the first Christians, not just in application but in basic principles.
In the Logos edition, all Scripture passages in Creation are tagged, appear on mouseover, and link to your favorite Bible translation in your library. With Logos’ advanced features, you can perform powerful searches by topic or Scripture reference—finding, for example, every mention of “the Garden of Eden” or “Genesis 2:15.”
