Here is a link to chapter 5 of my book.
Section 2 forms the original core of the book, in which the development of the doctrine of a fallen Creation from an original Christian teaching that was very different, is traced in some detail.
It is selective, as all summaries must be, but was a genuine attempt to find the views of as many of the serious theologians of the early Church, in particular, as possible. In other words I have tried to present their actual views, rather than distort their interpretation of the Scriptures, and that is why many of the quotations are fairly long passages. In some case I could have quoted much more to the same effect.
