Facing the Dark Side of GENESIS

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ROBERT E JOYCE has been chaplain to the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons since 1990. He also ministers worldwide as a motivational speaker, relationship expert, life coach; and serves as senior pastor to Life Center Church which he and his late wife, LaVern, founded in 1982. Life Center Church is a center for ministry training in the northwest suburbs of Detroit, Michigan.

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FACING THE DARK SIDE OF GENESIS: A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF OURSELVES claims that religious thinkers have overlooked a crucial aspect of the truth: God's creating act is necessarily interpersonal and immediately causes perfect creatures only. These persons, both angelic and human, necessarily respond instantly with full freedom. The new interpretation for understanding better who we are--and who we are not--integrates and deepens traditional belief in God. Attention is given to the profoundly unconscious dimensions of the mind and heart, largely neglected, that emerge from the spiritual structure of being. This new theistic worldview suggests an expanded ground for understanding the conflict between creationists and evolutionists. The author discloses a general failure of theology to see the difference between creation absolutely out of nothing and the redemptive creation out of something that is fallen, as depicted in GENESIS.