Table of contents : Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction
Part I: Understanding the Context 1. Who Are the Church Fathers, and Why Should I Care? 2. How Not to Read the Church Fathers 3. What Does "Literal" Mean? Patristic Exegesis in Context
Part II: Reading the Fathers 4. Basil the Literalist? 5. Creation out of Nothing 6. The Days of Genesis 7. Augustine on "In the Beginning" 8. On Being like Moses
Bibliography Author Index Subject Index Scripture Index