How the World Began

Sermons on the Creation Story

by Helmut Thielicke, translated by John W. Doberstein

Book cover: How the World Began

Extent: 240 pages

Publisher: The Lutterworth Press

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Thielicke Library

Language: English

Paperback (No longer our product)

(November 2016)

ISBN: 9780718894580

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $35.00

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PDF (Published)

(November 2016)

ISBN: 9780718845087

Price: $27.99

From the pen of the leading 20th Century German theologian, this is a collection of wide-ranging and powerful sermons that take their themes from the Biblical story of Creation.


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.

  • By (author) Helmut Thielicke
  • Translated by John W Doberstein

"He is clearly one of the really great preachers of the day."Church of England Newspaper"They are most acceptable and thought provoking."Life of Faith