Ep. #155 – Simplicity, Creation, and Adam & Eve w/ Dr. Levering
Summary
What are the divine ideas? How do they relate to creation? What should Catholics believe about the 6 days of creation? Why is it important to believe in Adam and Eve and how can belief in an original couple be harmonized with the genetic evidence? What do you discuss about the atonement in your book on creation? Dr. Matthew Levering joins us to answer these questions as we discuss his book Engaging the Doctrine of Creation.
Guest Bio
Dr. Matthew Levering who is the James N. and Mary D. Perry jr. Chair of theology at Mundelein seminary. Ph.D., Boston College. Previous appointments include: associate professor of theology at Ave Maria University, Myser Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, and professor of theology at University of Dayton. Author or co-author of over thirty books including such works as Scripture and Metaphysics, Participatory Biblical Exegesis, Biblical Natural Law, Proofs of God, Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance, and Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
Currently at work on a nine-volume dogmatics, whose first three volumes have appeared (most recently Engaging the Doctrine of Creation). He is also editor or co-editor of over twenty books including such works as The Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology, Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology, and The Reception of Vatican II. Translator of Gilles Emery, O.P.’s The Trinity. Additionally, Dr. Levering is the co-editor of Nova et Vetera and of the International Journal of Systematic Theology as well as a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology and of Evangelicals and Catholics Together.
Resources
Engaging the Doctrine of Creation by Dr. Matthew Levering
Eternity, Time and the Life of Wisdom by Fr. Matthew Lamb
Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation by Dr. Matthew Levering
Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit by Dr. Matthew Levering
Aquinas on the Divine Ideas as Exemplar Causes by Dr. Gregory T. Doolan
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