GENESIS, CREATION and EARLY MAN. FR. SERAPHIM ROSE.

MIDST the creation/evolution debate that is now raging, with evidence being A offered for both sides, few have made use of what Fr. Seraphim Rose called "the missing evidence": the teaching of the ancient Orthodox Holy Fathers on the events of creation, the first-created world, the natures of created things, and the original nature of man.

Now for the first time in the English language, this teaching has been gath- ered and set forth in a thorough, detailed, and above all honest manner. Perhaps more than anyone else in our times, Fr. Seraphim Rose searched, studied, prayed, and suffered to understand how the ancients noetically apprehended the cre- ation in the light of the God-inspired book of Genesis. Having acquired their mind, he has presented to the modern world the harmonious Patristic vision of the cosmos.

A vital answer to the contemporary "crisis of meaning," this book sheds startling new light on the mysteries of our origin. The Divine vision of the ancient Fathers opens up unforeseen dimensions of the creation: deeper levels of reality that cannot be reached through rational or scientific means.

"Fr. Seraphim Rose was a profound scholar of the teachings of Orthodox Chris- tianity, and also a keen analyst of the modern condition. His penetrating writ- ings and lectures on the Patristic understanding of creation, brought together here for the first time, provide a viewpoint about as far from twentieth-century evolutionary naturalism as can be imagined. Depending upon their presuppo- sitions readers may be inspired or outraged, but I don't think anyone will be bored."

-PHILLIP E. JOHNSON, author of Darwin on Trial

FR. SERAPHIM ROSE (1934-1982) was an Orthodox monk in the ancient tradition who dedicated his life to reawakening the modern West to forgotten spiritual truths. From his remote cabin in the mountains of northern California, he produced writings that have had a tremendous international impact. He is one of the most loved and revered spiritual writers in Russia today.