Tato Sumantri

Rereading Genesis 1–11 with a Look into Revelation 18:1—22:7

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In looking at what might be the bookends of the Christian Scriptures, Strickler follows an Anabaptist ethos of trying to wrest the Scriptures from the holds of Christendom, with its priorities on power and self-protection. By contrast, Elohim is a God who creates, recreates, cocreates, and partners. . . . How the opening chapter of a story is understood determines how the rest of the story is read, and for those who claim the name ‘Christian,’ how the story of the Bible is understood determines how life is lived.”