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Fr. Seraphim: Genesis, Creation and Early Man

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I've asked around before, but I will try again. Does anybody have this book? No website has it in stock. There was suppose to be a reprint but I guess it hasn't happened.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. (Ps. 50)

Joanna Higginbotham

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Here is a website that has the forward and the first three chapters online.
http://www.creatio.orthodoxy.ru/english ... index.html
You can see if you really think it is worth it to track down a copy.

The First-Created Man by St. Symeon the New Theologion is available through sjkp.org
This was taken from the original printings in the 0rthodox Word, where Fr. Seraphim had it serialized.

Joanna Higginbotham

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Here is the Table of Contents:

Genesis, Creation and Early Man
Fr.Seraphim Rose
712 pages

Table of Contents
Editor's Preface: The Story Behind the Book by Hieromonk Damascene

  1. The Intellectual Milieu of Fr. Seraphim's Formative Years
  2. From the Evolutionary Worldview to the Orthodox Worldview
  3. The Roots of Evolutionism
  4. The Mind of the Holy Fathers
  5. Evolution and Chiliasm
  6. "Traditionalists" in Favor of Evolution
  7. The "Survival Course" and the Courses on Genesis
  8. The Plan of the Book
  9. Developments in the 1980's
  10. Developments in the 1990's Phillip E. Johnson
  11. Changes in the Orthodox World
  12. Beyond Darwinism
  13. The Present Book
  14. This Book's Primary Contribution to the World
  15. The Nature of Man

Introduction: Fr. Seraphim Rose and 21st-Century Science, by Phillip E. Johnson

  1. The Mechanism of Evolution: Mutation and Selection
  2. The Common Ancestry Thesis
  3. Evolution (in the Scientific Sense) Is Inherently Godless
  4. Conclusion: Can Science Tell Us a True Story about Origins?

Part I: An Orthodox Patristic Commentary on Genesis

Editor's Note
Foreword: Why Study the Book of Genesis?
Chapter One: How to Read Genesis

  1. Approach
  2. The Holy Fathers: Our Key to the Understanding of Genesis
  3. Basic Principles of Our Approach to Understanding Genesis
  4. Literal vs. Symbolical Interpretations
  5. The Nature of the Text

Chapter Two: The Six Days of Creation (General Observations)

  1. Introduction
  2. General Remarks about the Six Days
  3. Why Six Days?

Chapter Three: The Six Days (Day by Day)

  1. The First Day (Genesis 1:1-5)
  2. The Second Day (Genesis 1:6-8)
  3. The Third Day (Genesis 1:9-13)
  4. The Fourth Day (Genesis 1:14-19)
  5. The Fifth Day (Genesis 1:20-23)
  6. The Sixth Day (Genesis 1:24-31)

Chapter Four: The Creation of Man (Genesis 1:26-31; 2:4-7)

Chapter Five: Paradise (Genesis 2:8-24)

Chapter Six: The Fall of Man (Genesis 3:1-24)

Chapter Seven: Life Outside Paradise (Genesis 4:1-6:5)

  1. The Banishment of Adam
  2. Cain and Abel
  3. The Genealogy from Adam through Seth to Noah
  4. The Corruption of Mankind

Chapter Eight : The Flood (Genesis 6:6-8:22)

Chapter Nine: The Dispersion of the Peoples (Genesis 9:1-11:32)

  1. Noah and God's New Covenant
  2. The Generations of Noah
  3. The Tower of Babel

Part II: The Philosophy of Evolution

Chapter One: Science and the Holy Fathers

  1. True Theology and Secular Knowledge
  2. Science and Christian Philosophy
  3. Distinguishing Materialistic Fantasies from Scientific Truth
  4. Science as a Lower Form of Knowledge
  5. An Alien System of Thought
  6. The Lack of Philosophical Culture among Orthodox Christians
  7. The Philosophy of the Holy Fathers

Chapter Two: A Brief Critique of the Evolutionary Model

  1. Introduction
  2. Historical Background
  3. "Proofs" of Evolution
  4. The Theory of Evolution is Understandable Philosophically
  5. The Conflict between Christian Truth and Evolutionary Philosophy

Chapter Three: "Christian Evolutionism"

  1. Introduction
  2. Lecome du Nouy
  3. Fr. Anthony Kosturos
  4. Karl Rahner
  5. Stephanus Trooster
  6. The Roman Catholic View of Original Man
  7. Theodosius Dobzhansky
  8. Teilhard de Chardin
  9. The Chialism of Teilhard de Chardin
  10. Teilhardism in the Light of Orthodoxy
  11. "Orthodox" Followers of Teilhard de Chardin

Part III: The Patristic Doctrine of Creation
Editor's Note

  1. Philosophy, Not fact
  2. A Clear Definition
  3. Development, Not Evolution
  4. How Do the Holy Fathers Interpret Genesis?
  5. "By Man Came Death: (I Corinthians 15:21)
  6. Divine Vision
  7. The Nature of Man

Part IV: Questions and Answers

  1. The Age of the Earth
  2. Carbon 14 Dating
  3. Geological Strata
  4. A Matter of Models
  5. The Origin of the Heavenly Bodies (Patristic Cosmogony)
  6. Scientific Creationists
  7. Various Evolutionary Ideas
  8. The Limits of Biological Change
  9. "Human Evolution"
  10. The Limits of Scientific Inquiry
  11. The Biblical Chronology
  12. The Pre-existence of Souls, "Reincarnation," and Evolution
  13. The Nature of Paradise
  14. Free Will
  15. The Creation of Adam and Eve
  16. The Mind of Adam
  17. Paradise and Heaven
  18. !
    The Devil
  19. Christ's Spiritual Body
  20. The Firmament
  21. The "Location" of Paradise
  22. Between the Fall and the Flood
  23. The Flood
  24. Patristic Interpretation vs. Modern Textual Criticism
  25. The Ages of the Patriarchs
  26. Different Interpretations

Part V: Selections From Letters

  1. A key in the Program of Anti-Christianity
  2. Theistic Evolution
  3. A Rival Thought-pattern to Orthodoxy
  4. A Deep-seated Primordial Force
  5. The Argument against Evolution Is Not Scientific but Theological
  6. The Real Intellectual Problems of Today
  7. Such "Theology" We Do Not Need
  8. A Product of the "Spirit of the Times"
  9. Looking Forward with an Open Mind
  10. Quibbling Over Words
  11. The Holy Fathers as the Answer to Medieval Scholasticism
  12. Scientific Faith
  13. At Last the Real Battle Begins
  14. Love for the Holy Fathers
  15. The Power of This World and its Fashionable Ideas
  16. Unknowingly Harboring "Modern Ideas"
  17. Genuine Science
  18. Clearing Up Confusion
  19. The Genealogies of Christ
  20. The Larger Idea of Naturalism
  21. Scientists Who Question Evolution
  22. Avoiding One-Sidedness
  23. Three Axioms
  24. Notes from a Dialogue on Evolution
  25. Clergy in Greece against "Orthodox Evolutionism"
  26. People Are Ready to Hear This

Editor's Epilogue: Evolutionism and the Religion of the Future by Hieromonk Damascene

  1. The Passing of Scientific Materialism
  2. Evolutionism as the Philosophy of Antichrist
  3. Teilhard de Chardin as "Prophet"
  4. Elements of Teilhardism
  5. A New Evolutionary Synthesis
  6. The Minimum Requirements for Christians to be Accepted within the New Synthesis
  7. The "God" of the New Synthesis
  8. The Philosophy of Antichrist
  9. The Spirit of the Philosophy
  10. The Effect of Evolutionary Philosophy upon Christians
  11. The "Wedge" and Beyond
  12. The State of Orthodoxy Today

Appendix One: Notes on Science, Evolution, and Christian Philosophy

  1. The Incorruption of the First-Created World
  2. Science and the Question of Incorruption
  3. Evolution and "Cosmic Religion"
  4. The "Mysticism" of Teilhard de Chardin
  5. Evolution of the Exact Opposite of Christianity
  6. Why Orthodox Christians Should Not Be Indifferent to Evolution
  7. Paleontology and "Ivory-Tower Orthodoxy"
  8. Man as Qualitatively Different from Animals
  9. The Roman Catholic Idea of the State of Adam (According to Fr. Michael Pomazansky)
  10. Reading the Fossil Record
  11. An "Inferiority Complex" among Christians
  12. What Kind of Simple-minded Fools Are We?
  13. The Old Testament Chronology
  14. The Missing Evidence

Appendix Two: Outlines of Proposed Studies

  1. Evolution
  2. Patristic Section

Appendix Three: Fr. Seraphim's Last Talk on Creation and Evolution

Appendix Four: The Faith of Radiometric Dating by Curt Sewell

  1. Radiometric Dating
  2. Experimental Errors
  3. Documented Discrepancies
  4. Skull 1470
  5. Grand Canyon Dating
  6. Causes of Errors
  7. Original Isotopic Material
  8. Conclusion

Appendix Five: Suggested Readings by the Editor
I. Patristic Sources
II. Scientific Sources

  1. Initial Reading
  2. Other Important Scientific Critiques of Evolutionism
  3. On "Human Evolution"
  4. On Radiometric Dating
  5. On the Age of the Earth
  6. On the Dinosaurs
  7. On the Flood
  8. On Biological Variation
  9. On the History of Darwinism
  10. Creation Scientists in Defense of the Holy Fathers
  11. Aids in Apologetics
  12. For the Education of Children
  13. Where to Order These Sources
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Acknowledgments
    General Index
    Scripture Index
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Re: Fr. Seraphim: Genesis, Creation and Early Man

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Thank you Joanna for your reply. I have the book of St. Symeon. And I've read the link for the 1st three chapters. I also called the monastery for an update and they seem to have trouble in printing the book. I guess it will take some time, by God's will.

Joanna

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Keep checking Amazon - I think that is where I got the Table of Contents, when there was a copy for sale on Amazon they let potential buyers preview it.

I wouldn't wait for Platina. With reprinting Russia's Catacomb Saints they kept putting people off with excuses, and there never was a reprint. They finally rewrote it, without I.M. Andreyev's Introduction, maybe without other things, too. 0ne of their excuses for not reprinting it is that "there are so many new martyrs becoming known now, that it would be impossible to write about them all." Is that a stupid excuse or what? This was told to me by a monk at Holy Cross in West Virginia who accepts this excuse.

I can't imagine why Platina would not want to reprint Genesis, Creation and Early Man, but it could be that there is something in there that offends World 0rthodoxy. I don't trust Platina, anymore.

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The original Russia's Catacomb Saints is certainly a very important book. I am a bibliophile, and can say in all honesty that I believe it to be one of the most important books ever published in the twentieth century-- at least as important as The Gulag Archipelago or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. People in the West, and perhaps even in modern Russia, seem largely unaware of the terrible persecution of the Church in the Soviet era, and of the lives and miracles of the glorious New Martyrs of Russia. What a travesty that this book, of all books, would not have been republished by the St. Herman's Press! It also contains many important documents relating to the canonical status of the persecuted Church and the history of Sergianism, including the last epistles of Metropolitan St. Cyril of Kazan.

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Joanna,

The prices, I've seen, on the internet are riduculous. $142.00?? And most of the time many sites are out of print, anyway. One day, God will bring the book to me...when it's time for me to read it.

I thank you for your concern. :)

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. (Ps. 50)

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