Creation Story One
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Image: Ariely, own work, Wikimedia Commons: imaginative reconstruction of Second Temple of Jerusalem
Creation Story One
Grand theme: Creation as the courtly dwelling place of the Most High King, of His blessed and honoured subjects, and all things bright and beautiful
Key insights: God’s bone-quaking transcendence; the birth of true storytelling; the importance of order and correct distinctions; human centrality and responsibility within the world
On the vital necessity of always beginning at the beginning
When the beginning turns out to be not quite the beginning conceived
When Word is the only word that will do
The agony and ecstasy of writing
Framing Marvellous
When putting things in boxes is much more than ok
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Just As Real
Spiritual reality. You better believe it!