The question of where we come from and where we are going is one of the
elementary challenges of life. Perhaps it is the question of life. Only
when we get an answer to it do we learn who we are. So begins How the
World Began, a book that asks themost fundamental of all questions: who
are we? And what did God intend us to be? Despite - perhaps even because
of - the immense technological advances of our time, and the frightful
consequences for the human race of the misuse of that power, humanity is
brought face-to-face time and again with the essential problem that has
haunted us since the beginning of time: the mystery of good and evil.
Helmut Thielicke's work in these sermons on the first eleven chapters of
Genesis is thought-provokingand exceptionally powerful.