Genesis, Creation and Early Man

Description

 * Fr. Seraphim Rose. GENESIS, CREATION and EARLY MAN: The Orthodox Christian Vision. St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, CA, 2000.
 * 712 pages, illustrated, paperback.
 * ISBN 1887904026

Seraphim (Rose), né Eugene Dennis Rose, had said that few had made use of what he called the “the missing evidence”: the teaching of the ancient Orthodox Holy Fathers on the events of creation, the first-created world, the natures of created things, and the original nature of man. Fr. Rose has gathered this teaching and set it forth in a thorough, detailed, and above all honest manner. Fr. Seraphim Rose searched, studied, prayed, and suffered to understand how the ancients noetically apprehended the creation in the light of the God-inspired book of Genesis. Having acquired their mind, he has presented to the modern world the harmonious patristic vision of the cosmos.


 * “I would urge us to be not too certain of our accustomed ways of looking at Genesis, and to open ourselves to the wisdom of the God-bearing men of the past who have devoted so much intellectual effort to understanding the text of Genesis as it was meant to be understood. These Holy Fathers are our key to understanding Genesis.” —Fr. Seraphim Rose

The first few chapters of the book are available online, at:
 * Creatio: Orthodox mission center "Shestodnev".

Review

 * Answers in Genesis.org. Orthodoxy and Genesis: What the fathers really taught - A review of Genesis, Creation and Early Man.

Review

 * Phillip E. Johnson, author of Darwin on Trial has written an introduction to the book. According to Professor Johnson:
 * “Fr. Seraphim Rose was a profound scholar of the teachings of Orthodox Christianity, and also a keen analyst of the modern condition. His penetrating writings and lectures on the patristic understanding of creation, brought together here for the first time, provide a viewpoint about as far from twentieth-century evolutionary naturalism as can be imagined.”

Source

 * Saint Herman Press. Genesis, Creation and Early Man.