Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation
Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy

A very thought-provoking work here. As the title promises, this is what retrieval work is at its best. Ortlund does an exemplary job at considering Augustine in his own context first, and then bringing his contribution into contemporary conversations. One strength of this book is that Ortlund keeps......more

This is a fascinating and engaging book, that takes the reader for a journey into the works and mind of Augustine, concentrating on his doctrine of Creation. I came away from this book feeling the need to read more of Augustine, and to re-read the Confessions and the City of God - so that in itself......more

Summary: A study of Augustine's writing about creation and what that might contribute to the contemporary controversy. Imagine a gathering with a young earth creationist, an old earth creationist, and an evolutionary creationist. Fireworks, right? Now imagine that Augustine time-travels from the late......more

I’ve been following Dr Ortlund on YouTube for a while now and I really appreciate his charitable voice when talking about issues over which Christians disagree. In this book, he writes with the same humility and charity concerning one of the most important - and most contentious - issues facing earl......more

Ortlund brings Augustine in the creation discussion, which is especially fruitful in two ways: (1) he makes the case that doctrinal conversation is often more than two-sided, and that it is harder for people to see third alternatives when they have misidentified the most popular chat about a theolog......more