Plato’s Shade: Does Idealism Corrupt the Theology of Creation?

Dr. Sean McDonough is Associate Professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He holds a Ph.D in New Testament from St. Andrews University and His research interests include creation/cosmology in the Bible, Hellenistic Judaism, Greek philosophy and religion and the Book of Revelation. He is the author of Christ as Creator: Origins of a New Testament Doctrine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009; Cosmology and New Testament Theology, ed. with Jonathan Pennington. Edinburgh: Continuum, 2008; YHWH at Patmos: Revelation 1:4 in its Hellenistic and Early Jewish Setting, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2nd series. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1999.  He is presently working on a book entitled Creation and New Creation: Christian Doctrine in Historical Perspective.