Rock, Resurrection, and Radio Stations — a conversion story

Reed Lessing reviews CREATION AND CHAOS IN THE PRIMEVAL ERA AND ESCHATON: Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 1 and Revelation 12. By Hermann Gunkel and K. William Whitney Jr. (translator). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006. 456 pages. Paper. $36.00.

Sometimes I wonder if we conservative Christians have become what might be called second and third article Christians (that is we care only about the second & third articles of the Nicene Creed). In other words, we think of Jesus as the one who gets us to heaven with the result that we then regard creation as of little importance by comparison.