Old Testament I: Genesis 1–11

by Andrew Louth

Publisher:

IVP

, 2001

Overview

The range of comment contained in Genesis 1–11 spans from the first century to the eighth, from East to West, and from Greek and Latin speakers to Syriac. Especially helpful in this volume is editor Andrew Louth’s supply of Septuagintal alternative readings to the Masoretic text, which are often necessary to understanding the fathers’ flow of thought.

Contents

Top Highlights

“It is only against the background of a proper understanding of the doctrine of creation that we are able to grasp the significance of the incarnation of the Word. What creation means, as Athanasius goes on to make clear, is that the universe has been created out of nothing by the Word of God. It follows from this that the universe is good, that the reason for its present lamentable state is not to be sought in the Creator but in the fact that the highest created state is that of a free, rational being, so that to create a universe capable of containing the highest form of goodness was to create a universe that depended on the free obedience of rational beings, the fall being the failure of rational beings to remain faithful to the good.” (Page xlviii)

“He says ‘let us make’ to a co-operator, necessarily to Christ. And he says ‘according to the image.’ Therefore man is not the image of God, but he is ‘according to the image.’ For Jesus alone is the image of God, but man is ‘according to the image,’ that is, image of the image. But he says ‘according to our image.’ Therefore both Father and Son are one image. Against Arius 1a.20.” (Page 29)

“All men are made in God’s image; but to be in his likeness is granted only to those who through great love have brought their own freedom into subjection to God. For only when we do not belong to ourselves do we become like him who through love has reconciled us to himself. No one achieves this unless he persuades his soul not to be distracted by the false glitter of this life.” (Page 30)

Product Details

• Title: Old Testament I: Genesis 1–11
• Author: Andrew Louth
• Series: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (Rev.)
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 2001
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Era: era:nicene
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Genesis 1-11 › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780830897261, 083081471, 0830897267
• Resource ID: LLS:ACCSREVOT01
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:05:06Z

About Andrew Louth

Andrew Louth is professor emeritus of patristic and Byzantine studies at Durham University, England, and visiting professor of Eastern Orthodox theology at the Amsterdam Centre of Eastern Orthodox Theology (ACEOT), in the Faculty of Theology, the Free University, Amsterdam. He is also a priest of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh (Moscow Patriarchate), serving the parish in Durham. His recent publications include Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology, Greek East and Latin West, AD 681-1071, Maximus the Confessor and The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition.