Tag: Adam
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Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution and Evangelicals (Peter Enns)
Huffington Post: Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution and Evangelicals … Evangelicals look to the Bible to settle important questions of faith. So, faced with a potentially faith-crushing idea like evolution, evangelicals naturally ask right off the bat, "What does the Bible say about that?" And then informed by "what the Bible says," they are…
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Surprise (Daniel Kirk on Jesus and Adam)
Storied Theology: Surprise Daniel Kirk Jesus was an unlikely Messiah. … … But it’s not just that Jesus was crucified. Surprising as that was, the more incomprehensible idea was that this crucifixion would somehow be, not the denial of his messiahship, but the quintessential embodiment of it. What it means to be Messiah is, somehow,…
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Adam, OT, & Judaism
Storied Theology: Adam, OT, & Judaism Daniel Kirk It seems that I am ever hearing about the relative unimportance of Adam as a determining figure in non-Christian Judaism: Adam is only mentioned outside of Genesis 1-4 in genealogies; there is no “fall” per se in the Hebrew Bible; Christians make a lot of Adam because…
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The Reality of Adam and the Story of Christ
Storied Theology (Daniel Kirk): The Reality of Adam and the Story of Christ On Friday of last week, David Opderbeck asked a challenging question. I had posted on “Anthroposis,” the idea that what we really need is to become more truly human than we already are. Or, in the biblical narrative, to return to the…
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Adam as head of the family
From Women in Ministry (Cheryl Schatz): Adam as head of the family It is common for hierarchists to say that Adam was Eve’s head not because he was her source, but because he had an authority over her. While the teaching that Adam was Eve’s ruler before the fall of man is unsubstantiated, the fact…