THE MESSAGE OF CREATION
By David Wilkinson
IVP The Bible Speaks Today: Bible Themes Series . 296 pages. £9.99
ISBN 0 85111 269 2
David Wilkinson is Fellow in Christian Apologetics and Associate Director of the Centre for Christian Communication at St John's College, University of Durham. He is also a Methodist minister and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Hence the cover blurb: 'With the eyes of a theologian and a cosmologist he looks at the message of creation in representative biblical passages. He brings the texts into lively conversation with contemporary concerns.'
The contents are arranged in five sections, each with four chapters. Section one (The beginning of creation) explores Genesis 1-3. The author treads carefully around areas of controversy, maintaining that Genesis 1 'is not a passage about the "how" of creation, nor primarily about the "why" of creation. Rather it is a passage about the "who" of creation'. However, an eight-page summary outlining the different interpretations of Genesis 1 is included in an appendix.
