Preface
Introduction
Part I: In the Beginning: Scriptural and Platonic Perspectives
Chapter 1: A Scriptural Point of Departure
Chapter 2: Plato on Cosmological Origins
Chapter 3: Middle Platonic Responses
Part II: The Shape of Things to Come
Chapter 4: The Creation Account of Philo Judaeus
Chapter 5:Creation and Cosmos in the Apostolic Fathers
Part III: Forging the Doctrine
Chapter 6: The Christian Platonism of Justin Martyr
Chapter 7: The Christian Philosophy of Athenagoras of Athens
Chapter 8: Tatian of Syria: The ‘Stages’ of Creation
Chapter 9: Theophilus of Antioch: At the Threshold
Chapter 10: The Alexandrian School
Epilogue: Creation as ‘Beginning’
Bibliography
Index
About the Author