<p>Foreword by John H. Walton

Introduction

Part One: On Literalism

Chapter One: The Creation: A Plain Reading

Chapter Two: What?s Eating Biblical Literalists?: Creationism the Enlightenment Project

Chapter Three: Unwholesome Complexity: Literalism as Scientism?s Pale Mimetic Rival

Chapter Four: Progressive vs. Degenerating Science: Weighing Incommensurable Paradigms

Chapter Five: Does Your God Need Stage Props?: On the Theological Necessity of Methodological Atheism

Chapter Six: The Enclave Mentality: Identity Foreclosure the Fundamentalist Mind

Chapter Seven: The Gnostic Syndrome: When Literalism Becomes a Heresy

Chapter Eight: Four Witnesses Barth, Calvin, Augustine, Maimonides on the Literal Meaning of Genesis

Chapter Nine: If Not Foundationalism, What Then?: From Tower-Building to Net-Mending

Part Two: On Animal Suffering

Epigraph Two: In Praise of Self-Deprecation

Chapter Ten: Stasis, Deception, Curse: Three Literalist Dilemmas

Chapter Eleven: A Midrash: C. S. Lewis?s Cosmic Conflict Theodicy Revisited

Chapter Twelve: God of the Whirlwind: Animal Ferocity in the Book of Job

Chapter Thirteen: Creation Kenosis: Evolution and Christ?s Self Emptying Way of the Cross

Chapter Fourteen: Animal Ethics, Sabbath Rest

Conclusion

Notes

Subject and Author Index</p>

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