Here is a compilation of various resources for Catholics and other Christians to begin digging into the perennial beliefs regarding the historicity of the creation story laid out in the First Book of Moses. A lot of this was originally sourced by Gideon Lazar but I have tweaked some things and added imbedded links to all of the works cited. This is not a finished product and will continue to be a work in progress. I hope that people find this interesting and helpful.
Fathers and Doctors of the Church
Saint Theophilus of Antioch
Letter to Autocylus, Book II Chapters 10-32 (x)
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
Adversus Haereses (specifically Book V Chapter 23)
Origen of Alexandria
Homilies on Genesis
Saint Victorinus
On the Creation of the World
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
Commentary on Genesis
Saint Basil the Great
Homilies on the Hexaemeron
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
On the Making of Man
Saint Ambrose of Milan
Hexaemeron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel
Saint John Chrysostomos
Homilies on Genesis
Saint Augustine
Confessions, Books XI and XII
On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis
City of God, Books XI-XVI
Selpicius Severus
Sacred History
Venerable Bede
The Reckoning of Time, Chapter 66
Saint John of Damascus
Exposition on the Orthodox Faith, Book II (x)
Saint Bonaventure
Breviloquium, Parts II and III
Collations in Hexaemeron
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars Questions 44-46, 65-74, 90-92, and 102
Conciliar Magisterium
Council of Carthage (AD 419)
Canon 109
Fourth Lateran Council (AD 1215)
Confession of Faith
Council of Trent (AD 1545-1563)
Session IV, Decree concerning the use of the Sacred Books
Session V, On Original Sin
Professio Fidei
Catechism of Trent, On the Production of Man (pg 42)
Second Vatican Council (AD 1965)
Dei Verbum, Chapter III
Roman Martyrology
December 25th
Papal Magisterium
Pope Leo XIII
Arcanum Divinae, Paragraph 5
Providentissimus Deus
Pope Benedict XV
Spiritus Paraclitus
Pope Ven. Pius XII
Divino Afflante Spiritu
Humani Generis
Pope Saint John Paul II
Laborum Exercens, Chapter IV
Evangelium Vitae, Chapter 34-36
Pope Francis
Laudato Si, Paragraph 65-67
Pontifical Biblical Commission
The commission was granted explicit papal approval as authoritatively binding by Pope Saint Pius X in 1907 (Praestantia Scripturae) until that authority was rescinded by Pope Saint Paul VI in 1971 (Sedula Cura). The rescinding does not retroactively make the previous issued decrees non-binding but merely removes that prerogative from further decrees by the commission. Much of the decrees are only available in Latin and Italian but the first 50 years are in English here.
Miscellaneous
Fr. Chad Ripperger
The Metaphysical Impossibility of Human Evolution
Dr. Henry Morris
The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution
Fr. Seraphim Rose
Genesis, Creation, and Early Man
Fr. Victor Warkulwiz
The Doctrines of Genesis
Drs. John Bergsma and Brant Pitre
A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament (I don’t have a PDF)
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You are, therefore, O man, an animal born to command. Why do you submit to this wretched slavery of passions? Why do you give yourself over to sin as a worthless slave? Why do you of your own accord make yourself a bondsman and captive of the devil? God commanded you to hold the chief place among creatures; and behold, you shake off and reject the dignity of so great a sovereignty.
I think we have different views about academia. If, and only if, I became a professor, it would be with the intention of earning a nice cash while working the littlest hours possible, doing the minimum amount of research necessary for them to not fire my ah, using up a lot of paid maternity leave and paid sick leave and paid caretaker leave, and saving the poor teaching students from being stuck with whatever illiterate fool would be teaching them grammar if I hadn't been oh so charitable to apply for this job. All very noble and Godly intentions. Imagine the amount of very bad research papers I'll prevent from existing by preventing the job from falling on stupid hands who think they're smart? I hope you enjoyed this waste of time. (Oppressive forces of society can't stop trying to nuke my sanity with this talk about "needing to do something with my life")
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By his upright stature, therefore, man is admonished that he should not pursue earthly things, as the cattle do, whose every pleasure is from the earth: hence all cattle are bent and prostrate toward the belly; hence the Poet:
And while other animals look downward at the earth,
He gave man a face raised high, and bade him gaze
At heaven, and lift his upturned eyes to the stars.
For heaven, therefore, we were born; for heaven we were created: this is our end, this is our goal. If we stray from this, we are men in vain, in vain have we looked up at heaven and the sun; it would have been better to have been brute beasts or stones. But if we attain it -- thrice and four times blessed! Let this therefore be for us, as for St. Bernard, a perennial spur to a pure and holy life: Bernard, say why you are here? Why do you look up at heaven? Why have you received a rational and immortal soul?
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