Karl Barth on the so-called Historical Adam (March 5, 2015)

I've assembled quotations from three of Karl Barth's books to explain his robust Doctrine of Adam: The Church Dogmatics Vol. IV.1 §60, Christ and Adam: Man and Humanity in Romans 5, and The Epistle to the Romans (Romans II). I've assembled ten statements on Adam to summarized the following quotations from Barth's […]

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Adam Leaving the Father and Mother He Never Had (July 10, 2014)

Early Christian depiction of Adam and Eve in the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter Dietrich Bonhoeffer in bold fashion comments on Genesis 2:24 that "the narrator is obviously stumbling". This is one of many bold and enlightening sections of his book, Creation and Fall, Temptation: Two Biblical Studies, and one that is foundational to […]

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