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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Some uncommon for Christians to devote study time to the first two chapters of Genesis.

Typically this will take the form of questions either about origins, how God created the world

and the first humans, or about genre, to what extent, if at all all the creation account that opens the Bible

should be taken literally. These questions emerged as most important

over the last 150 years or so in reaction to the rise and eventual dominance of the Darwinian

account of origins in the Western world. Neglected in this discussion,

understandably so, is often a study of creation as a concept rather than as an event.

In other words, there are vast implications for life in the world of creation as the opening

chapter of an ongoing work of God, particularly in terms of the purpose,

the function, the story, and the goal of creation.

This focus on what might be called creation theology is the subject of a rich and succinct new book called The Bea. called the

creation theology is the subject of a rich and succinct new book called The Beginning and End of All Things,

the biblical theology of creation and new creation by Dr. Edward Clink.

And in a recent episode of the Colston Center's upstream

podcast Dr. Klink shared with host Shane Morris just why he wrote a book on this

topic of creation theology. Here's Dr. Klink.

When you look at the Bible, creation,

it's a theme that goes from Genesis Revelation.

It really is the story that God is doing.

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