The first volume of our new series, Fathers of the Church: Shorter Works, will be available in the summer of 2021. This series, to be printed only in paperback format, will offer English translations of treatises, homilies, poems, and letters of the Church Fathers in slim, easily affordable volumes. In this way a multitude of important writings will become accessible to scholars and students as well as the reading public. This is the first complete English translation of St. Gregory of Nyssa’s treatise On the Six Days of Creation (In Hexaemeron). It was probably written in 380-381, and is designed as both a defense and a critique of his recently deceased brother St. Basil’s better known homilies on the creation story as set out in the first chapter of Genesis. At the same time it incorporates Gregory’s own observations on the Genesis text, which reflect his desire to show the consistency between Scripture and the philosophy and natural science of his day A notable feature is Gregory’s presentation of God’s creation of the world as what has been called a “substantification” of God’s own will, creatio ex Deo rather than creatio ex nihilo. Other ideas of his seem interestingly to foreshadow those of modern science, notably his challenge to the idea that matter is a primary ontological category and his theory that the world as we know it developed through a process of “sequence” (akolouthia) from an originally simultaneous creation of everything. Gregory differs from Basil in maintaining that the “waters above the firmament” in Genesis 1 are spiritual rather than physical in nature. He uses a modified form of Aristotle’s theory of elements, together with some interesting observations on geography and meteorology, to construct a detailed and ingenious account of the “water cycle.” This description enables him to refute Basil’s notion that there needs to be an extra supply of physical water above the firmament so that the water lost from earthly seas and rivers through evaporation can be “topped up.”

One of the most heartbreaking experiences of my life was simply asking people questions about statements in the Bible because my life was about the Word of God. People and preachers rarely had any answer except you have to just have faith. With all the suffering in the world, as I was a child, it did not seem that faith was doing the job. So I went in search of my own answers, and this book is the surprising result. My first surprise was that it seemed the Bible followed Darwins theory up until the creation of humans. Also, there seemed to be information that followed quantum physics. Then I noticed that Genesis gave the entire creation of life from Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:4, and then it seemed to start an entirely new book and go into the process of how it was done. I spent almost fifty years reading and studying, and one day I realized we are still in the sixth day of creation. Man has not reached the age of perfection yet. This is also in agreement with the ages of man and the ice age. It was at this time that I felt compelled to put it into a book.

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The Seven Days of Creation is the first MazorBooks picture book based on biblical texts to be published with young readers in mind.This book describes in easy to understand rhymes and colorful images the order of creation as it appears at the beginning of the book of Genesis: Beginning with God's words on day one, 'Let there be light!' to the creation of the Sabbath, the day of rest.This is an excellent introduction to the first book of the Old Testament and an excellent way to teach children about the creation of the world. Vivid description using age-appropriate vocabulary and colorful pictures is bound to help beginner readers, who will want to read this book time and again and thus also internalize the story of creation.MazorBooks specializes in publishing children's books, which increase children's knowledge base, enhance their vocabulary, and promote good values

Text by Jesus Mateo, Jose Saramago, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Ernesto Sabato.