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Did God Create in Six Days?
This set of essays was originally presented by a symposium hosted by Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1999. These scholarly and practical discussions survey the history of interpretation of the days of creation, and present a range of views.
339 pages, Hardcover
Published June 1, 1999
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David D. Hall
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For the Fenland Survey historian, see David D. Hall.
Professor David D. Hall is an American historian, and was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, at Harvard Divinity School.
He graduated from Harvard University, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. He is well known for introducing Lived religion to religious studies scholarship in the United States, most notably at Harvard Divinity School.
Hall was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History until 2008, when he became Bartlett Research Professor. He writes extensively on religion and society in seventeenth-century New England and England.
His books include The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century; Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England; Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology and, most recently, A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England (2011). He has edited two key collections of documents: The Antinomian Controversy of 1636–1638: A Documentary History and Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638–1693.
Another interest is the "history of the book," especially the history of literacy and reading in early America. He edited, with Hugh Amory, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, the first of a five-volume series of which he was the general editor.
He continues to study and write about religion and culture in early America, with particular attention to "lived religion," and is presently writing a general history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New England c. 1550 to 1700, to be published by Princeton University Press.
Professor David D. Hall is an American historian, and was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, at Harvard Divinity School.
He graduated from Harvard University, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. He is well known for introducing Lived religion to religious studies scholarship in the United States, most notably at Harvard Divinity School.
Hall was Bartlett Professor of New England Church History until 2008, when he became Bartlett Research Professor. He writes extensively on religion and society in seventeenth-century New England and England.
His books include The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century; Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England; Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology and, most recently, A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England (2011). He has edited two key collections of documents: The Antinomian Controversy of 1636–1638: A Documentary History and Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638–1693.
Another interest is the "history of the book," especially the history of literacy and reading in early America. He edited, with Hugh Amory, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, the first of a five-volume series of which he was the general editor.
He continues to study and write about religion and culture in early America, with particular attention to "lived religion," and is presently writing a general history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New England c. 1550 to 1700, to be published by Princeton University Press.
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May 10, 2023
This is a very helpful collection of essays representing a range of views currently expressed in conservative and evangelical Presbyterian and Reformed denominations in the West. Most of the essays are written from a convinced 24/6 young earth creation perspective. There are chapters written from other perspectives, but the 24/6 view is the most convincingly argued from Scripture in this book. David Hall's thoroughly researched chapter on the views of the Westminster Divines is worth the price of the book.
March 24, 2025
Solid exegetical and historical support for six day creation. While I felt it was lacking in interaction with scientific discussion of origins, the contribution by C. Stuart Patterson at least began this train of thought. David Hall's chapters were particularly eye opening and I appreciate that the volume ends on a note of doxology with a sermon from John Garrick on the glory of creation.
February 21, 2023
Academic and scholarly discussion on this topic.
It includes essays from both sides but it is weighted toward 24-hour view which is the position that the faculty at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary take.
It includes essays from both sides but it is weighted toward 24-hour view which is the position that the faculty at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary take.
January 18, 2016
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made" (John 1:1-3). This collection of conference papers explores the history of understanding God's creation as detailed in the first two chapters of Genesis. Did God truly create all things in the space of six literal days? Or was this a figurative or literary construct by which a transcendent God communicates his creative power to finite mankind? Some of these papers reflect the historic six-day creation viewpoint, while some support the so-called Framework or Analogical view. And some focus on the history of this debate within historic Presbyterian confessions and post-Darwin church history. As a literal six-day creationist, I found the most helpful and exegetically plausible papers to be those written by Rev. David Hall, Dr. Joseph Pipa and Dr. Morton Smith. However I highly recommend reading all the papers to better understand the issues in this very current debate.
August 13, 2013
like all books based on symposiums or with multiple authors, some chapters are better than others which makes for an uneven read. this book takes aim primarily at the day-age view with some swipes at framework and evolution thrown in. The 2 best chapters were pips's (from chaos to cosmos) and dyer's (the New Testament doctrine of creation). The two worst chapters were by Hall who is also one of the editor's. His content was good but the chapters read like a symposium manuscript rather than a book chapter. some chapters were good but out of place. One chapter was highly technical on the science and at times went over my head. I also found numerous editing errors. I found the relative paucity of footnoting also problematic.
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