Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: Literalism -- 1 The Creation -- A Plain Reading -- 2 What's Eating Biblical Literalists? -- Creationism and the Enlightenment Project -- 3 Unwholesome Complexity -- Literalism as Scientism's Pale Mimetic Rival -- 4 Progressive Versus Degenerating Science -- Weighing Incommensurable Paradigms -- 5 Does Your God Need Stage Props? -- On the Theological Necessity of Methodological Atheism -- 6 The Enclave Mentality -- Identity Foreclosure and the Fundamentalist Mind -- 7 The Gnostic Syndrome -- When Literalism Becomes a Heresy -- 8 Four Witnesses on the Literal Meaning of Genesis -- Barth, Calvin, Augustine and Maimonides -- 9 If Not Foundationalism, What Then? -- From Tower Building to Net Mending -- Part Two: On Animal Suffering -- 10 Stasis, Deception, Curse -- Three Literalist Dilemmas -- 11 A Midrash -- C. S. Lewis's Cosmic Conflict Theodicy Revisited -- 12 God of the Whirlwind -- Animal Ferocity in the Book of Job -- 13 Creation & Kenosis -- Evolution and Christ's Self-Emptying Way of the Cross -- 14 Animal Ethics, Sabbath Rest -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Subject and Author Index -- Praise for Death Before the Fall -- About the Author -- More Titles from InterVarsity Press.