The Doctrine Of Creation (3)

The late Professor L. Berkhof, writing on the doctrine of creation in history, writes the following in his Reformed Dogmatics, page 126-127: "While Greek philosophy sought the explanation of the world in a dualism, which involves the eternity of matter, or in a process of emanation, which makes the world the outward manifestation of God, the Christian Church from the very beginning taught the doctrine of creationex nihilo and as a free act of God. This doctrine was accepted with singular...