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WOF 304: Understanding Genesis: Creation

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

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The Author of Genesis Is Dethroning All These Things

In the first chapter of genesis, we read about god creating all sorts of things. You've often linked this to a liturgical rite, a procession of ministers like we might see at mass. What's going on here? What's the author trying to communicate with this literary style? I think it it's an ingenious move, the way a great writer will take a particular symbol or image and then he imbues it with multivalent meanings,.

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