Genesis 1 wants to examine the “big picture,” the creation of all that is, including man. A reader is immediately struck by its structure: there are a series of days on which particular works ...

Sept. 1 brings us “Creation Day,” also known as “Feast of Creation” or “World Day of Prayer for Creation.” This moment returns, like the seasons, timely, routine, but not taken for ...

(Genesis 1:1) so Christians believe that everything that exists was created by God. Genesis sets out the story of creation as taking place over six days. On the seventh day it says God rested.

The book is based on Brown’s earlier book on the same topic (The Days of Creation: A History of Christian Interpretation of Genesis 1:1–2:3), which itself draws upon his PhD dissertation.

1 as a day to celebrate creation in 1989. Daniel Payne is a senior editor at Catholic News Agency. He previously worked at the College Fix and Just the News. He lives in Virginia with his family.