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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Abraham Kuyper on Adam and Anthropology (May 4, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper has many extended anecdotes on Adam, especially in regards to our Anthropology (i.e. What is Man?) that were through his Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology. I've gathered three extended quotes from this book and shared them here. Kuyper viewed the resurrection as a restoration of Adam to his pre-Fall (antelapsarianism?) , […]

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