Basil is finding a new level of popularity in young-earth creationist (YEC) writings, and no wonder. He explicitly turns away from the allegorical approach that led Origen and later Augustine to embrace instantaneous creation, and professes a literalism in his Homilies on the Hexaemeron that seems to spare Genesis 1 from the sorts of interpretive…

No, Jack Collins–Professor of Old Testament at Covenant Seminary–has not decided to retire. At least I have no insider knowledge of anything of the sort. In a recent piece on Sapientia, though, Jack did suggest that the usefulness of genre has run its course. “Let’s send the word genre off to a comfortable retirement,” Jack…

What the authors of Scripture said, God said—right? It’s a concise way of explaining the sometimes difficult doctrine of Scriptural inspiration. The average Christian, then, can feel comfortable trusting in the Bible’s authority and get down to the business of learning from it. But Dr. John W. Hilber, one of two 2016-17 Senior Henry Fellows…

Johannes Brenz on Genesis 2:2 When it is said that God rested on the seventh day, one should not suppose that he would have deserted this world and led a life of leisure. Rather, it is said that he rested on the seventh day because he did not continue by building a new physical world…

Genesis 1 is the first place to turn when we think about a theology of work. God is presented as worker, creator, and designer. He makes the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1), he creates light (1:3), he forms the sky and the earth (1:6–10), and he makes vegetation (1:11–12). God establishes the heavenly lights…

When is a human being most Like a human being? To ask this question against the backdrop of the contemporary scene is to entertain some mixed opinions. Human beings are capable of extraordinary acts of self-sacrifice, such as in the cases of doctors, nurses, and other volunteers, who choose to treat those sick with the…