Gilkey, Langdon. Maker of Heaven and Earth: The Christian Doctrine of Creation in the Light of Modern Knowledge. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965 [1959].

Abstract

A thoughtful, clear consideration of the Christian idea of creation, placing this basic Christian doctrine in the setting of recent insights from the physical sciences, metaphysical philosophy, and the study of myth and symbol. Langdon Gilkey has shown its relationship to urgent human needs. He has sought to reinterpret the idea of creation "so that it is not just an irrelevant dogma inherited from a prescientific and prephilosophical past, but a symbol which points to the profoundest understanding of the dimensions, the tragedy, and the potentialities of human life; a symbol essential not only to the Christian faith, but also to a full apprehension by any man of the meaning of human existence."