'In the Beginning. . .' A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall By: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
non-fiction: religion 100 pages
Book Count: 64
NYR page count: 1216
I picked up this book for two reasons. One I wanted to read something that would go to my new year's resolution on reading. Two I was having a discussion with a fundamentalist relative on how one doesn't have to believe in only creation or in scientific explanations on the origin of the universe and/or people i.e. evolution. And so seeing this book I thought I would see what it says on it. It only had a few brief bits on the subject and as none of them was on how a better translation of the first two chapters of Genesis from the original Hebrew explicitly state that evolution happened,(not that it would) it was not useful in that talk. (But, what is in religion talks?) Anyway, it still was an interesting book. It points out that there are many creation stories in both the Old and New Testaments. It also talks about how the stories connected with things that people at that time needed to learn about God. It also went in to how all of the stories connect and ultimately spring from Jesus and His role in creation. Over all a very deep book, but still easy to read.
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