# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1861_S177
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A New Interpretation of the Biblical Record of Creation. 177.

wrongly rejected? The difference between Luther and the Observer may
arise from this, that Luther let himself be guided, in all points of
doctrine, solely by the clear word of God, while the Observer prefers to
follow his reason, or rather his dark feeling, and does not seriously ask
what Scripture teaches. S.



A New Interpretation of the Biblical Record of Creation
is given in the following work: "Die Schöpfungsgeschichte und die Lehre
vom Paradies. Ein urgeschichtlicher Versuch, by Phil. Friedr. Keerl.
Basel, 1861." This is a work of 804 pages, octavo, and is meant to form
only the first, foundational part of a work the author has announced,
under the title: "Man, the Image of God, His Relation to Christ and
to the World." This work, too, furnishes proof that people, weary of
the abstract philosophies of the modern age, have once again acquired
a taste for the fantasies of Gnosticism, which, however, now wraps
itself in supposedly deeper disclosures about the biblical record of
creation, and hopes in this garb to gain admission into the church. Herr
Professor Dr. Keil, formerly at Dorpat, now, so far as we know, living
privately in Leipzig, gives, in the theological periodical of Dieckhoff and
Kliefoth (the January and February numbers of this year), a critique of
Keerl's work, from which we communicate to our readers the latter's
interpretation of the biblical record of creation. Dr. Keil gives its
essential content as follows: