http://www2.evergreen.edu/christianroots/taxonomy/term/5/0 en http://www2.evergreen.edu/christianroots/welby-gliszinski-0 <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>            </span>Grant describes, on page 132, St. Augustine’s commentary on the Book of Genesis. It is in these writings that Augustine approaches a contradiction between the “six day creation” and a passage in the book of Ecclesiasticus that states, “He that lives forever created all things together.” Augustine’s rationalization of this inconsistency in doctrine is, at least to me, as interesting as it is surprising. He states that God, in an instant, did in fact create all things simultaneously as it was told in Ecclesiasticus. Initially, Augustine reasoned that the purpose of the “six day” narrative in Genesis was to help readers better understand the process of the creation by presenting it in a slow, step by step, format. This, in itself, struck me as a monumental event in the interpretation of doctrine in that Augustine seems to have been forced, in a way, to bend the literal meaning of the book of Genesis in order to reconcile conflicting statements in Holy Scripture.</font></font></p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/christianroots/welby-gliszinski-0">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/christianroots/welby-gliszinski-0#comment Week 3 Grant, Science and Religion, ch. 4-6 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:07:21 -0700 gliwel07 116 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/christianroots