Dramatic improvements over the previous edition in numerous ways: Hardcover, elegantly redesigned full-color interior printing on high quality, soft-gloss coated paper, updated text. As might be expected, the response has been overwhelming.
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From St Herman of Alaska Press:
NEW THIRD EDITION (2024/released 2025). For this new edition, we have updated many of the citations and have expanded the “Suggested Resources” section to include materials published since 2011.
In Part I (Fr. Seraphim’s commentary on Genesis) we have noted more differences between the Septuagint and Masoretic texts; in Appendix One (“Created in Incorruption”) we have provided a broader treatment of the Orthodox theology of redemption; and under “Suggested Resources” we have added a subsection on the Septuagint and its Genesis chronologies. This edition also contains many new illustrations.
1212 pages, hardcover, illustrated in full color. $45 from St Herman of Alaska Press.
This unique book collects together in one volume Fr Seraphim's writings and notes on the patristic vision of the creation of the World and Man, and his extensive critiques of the materialist/atheistic theory of evolution:
"Perhaps more than anyone else in our times, Fr. Seraphim Rose searched, studied, prayed, and struggled to understand how the Holy Fathers noetically apprehended the beginning of the world as revealed in Genesis and other Divinely inspired books of Scripture. Having acquired their mind, he has presented to the modern world the harmonious Patristic vision of the cosmos..."
Endorsements from noted Orthodox clergy and scholars:
“A presentation of the traditional, Patristic understanding of Genesis, which at the same time bravely exposes the lie of the modern philosophy of evolution...” —His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph, Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia
“I can witness to the satisfaction with which students, previously instructed in evolutionist theories, encounter the truth about our God-breathed origins in the pages of this book. As an antidote against the fashionable but spiritually and intellectually corrosive ‘dogma’ of evolution, this work is unsurpassed. As such, it belongs everywhere—parishes, monasteries, seminaries, and homes—where Orthodoxy is taught and studied...” —Bishop Luke, Rector, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York
“This book is a treasure. It not only provides a careful survey of Patristic teaching on creation, it also makes plain the continuing relevance of this teaching by directly challenging the theory of evolution in both its secular and theistic forms...” —David Bradshaw, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, author of Aristotle East and West and Divine Energies and Divine Action: Exploring the Essence-Energies Distinction
Available now from St Herman Press.
