What Happened in the Garden?
Subtitle: The Reality and Ramifications of the Creation and Fall of Man
Publisher: Kregel Academic
Published: Apr 27, 2016
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780825442094
Description: Evangelicals are no strangers to the creation versus evolution debate. Now the argument has spread beyond the contents of the creation account and into Genesis 2-3, with speculation about the historicity of Adam, and the fall. But does it matter which position one holds? Is anything really at stake? The faculty of The Master's College come together to contend that the second and third chapters of Genesis are indeed historical, that there are excellent reasons for believing so, and that it is an essential issue within Christian thought and life. The contents of these chapters establish the history of how everything in the world came to be what it is today. This Scripture passage--Genesis 3 especially--explains what we observe in the legal system, literature, gender roles, education, psychology, and science. Far from irrelevant, the theology and historicity of Genesis are in fact critical to our everyday lives."What Happened in the Garden?" includes new scientific, literary, business, educational, and legal perspectives on creation. Through this multidisciplinary look at the debate, the contributors prove that to change our understanding of the fall is to change the way we understand reality, to revise the Christian worldview, and to reshape the faith itself.--Publisher.
Notes: Source title: What Happened in the Garden?: The Reality and Ramifications of the Creation and Fall of Man
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : Reality of Genesis 2-3.; title: "Did God really say?": hermeneutics and history in Genesis 3 / Abner Chou; title: Adam and the animals / Todd Charles Wood, Joseph W. Francis; title: Genetics of Adam / Todd Charles Wood, Joseph W. Francis; title: Genesis 3: a map of misreadings / Grant Horner; title: Part 2 : Theological ramifications of the Creation and Fall.; title: Genesis 3 and Original Sin / Paul R. Thorsell; title: The Seed and Schaeffer / William Varner; title: Part 3 : Worldview ramifications of the Creation and Fall.; title: After the Fall: three effects on human enterprise / R.W. Mackey II; title: Thermodynamics and the Fall: how the Curse changed our world / Taylor B. Jones; title: In re Adam and Eve: reflections on the Creation and Fall of man-a legal perspective; title: The significance of sin for the psychologies / Ernie Baker; title: "He made them male and female": the image of God, essentialism, and the evangelical gender debate / Jo Suzuki; title: The historical Adam in education: why keeping him real in our curriculum matters / Alexander Granados; title: A sin of historical proportions / John MacArthur