Book Reviews

In the Space of Six Days Initially, the challenge to the Iiteral interpretation of Genesis I came from geology, but as the century progressed the challenge diversified and biologists also became trenchant critics. Louis Berkhof sums up the position well: The prevail ing view has always been that the days of Genesis I are to be understood as literal days. Some of the early Church Fathers did not regard them as real indicators of the time in which the work of creation was completed. but rather as...