the Christian doctrine of creation in the light of modern knowledge Gilkey, Langdon 1919-2004 creator text bibliography mdu New York Anchor Books 1959 1985 monographic eng

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xi, 378 pages, 19 cm A thoughtful, clear consideration of the Christian idea of creation, placing this basic Christian doctrine in the setting of recent insights from the physical sciences, metaphysical philosophy, and the study of myth and symbol. Langdon Gilkey has shown its relationship to urgent human needs. He has sought an irrelevant dogma inherited from a prescientific and prephilosophical past, but a symbol which points to the profoundest undestanding of the dimensions, the tragedy, and the potentialities of human life; a symbol essential not only to the Christian faith, but also to a full apprehension by any man of the meaning of human existance." Introduction to the Problem -- Waht the Idea of Creation Means -- God the Creator -- Creation and the Intelligibility of Our World -- Creation and the Meaning of Life -- Creation and Evil -- Creation and the Gospel -- Creation and Time -- Sepaking of God Langdon Gilkey. Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1959. Includes bibliographical references and index. Creation BT 695 .G5 231.7/65 85022607 DLC 850927 20240213150408.0 2860582 spa