A scientist and former evangelical argues that holding onto a belief in a literal, historical Adam has forced many Christians to reject science and become intellectually isolated from the modern world.
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PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION: Our Common Ancestor
CHAPTER ONE: First Man or First Jew? The Mysterious Patriarch of the Tribe of Israel
CHAPTER TWO: The Two Essential Adams of the Apostle Paul
CHAPTER THREE: The Devil Made Them Do It: Adam’s Free Choice, and Ours
CHAPTER FOUR: The Original Sinner: Augustine’s Attack on Adam as Everyman
CHAPTER FIVE: The Late Middle Ages: Adam Everywhere
CHAPTER SIX: The Origin of Mrs. Cain (and the Posse That Chased Her Husband)
CHAPTER SEVEN: The First Man and The First Minutes: Adam and the Age of the Earth
CHAPTER EIGHT: Too Many Adams? Or None at All?
CHAPTER NINE: Mark of Cain, Curse of Ham: Is God a Racist?
CHAPTER TEN: The Creationist Über-Adam: Why the First Son Could Marry His Sister
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Science, Antiscience, and the Extinction of Adam
CONCLUSION: Wishful Thinking? We Are All Original Sinners
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A WORD ABOUT BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS
NOTES
INDEX
What is the future of a Christian faith that requires an untenable self-destructive original sin/salvation theology? Honest, candid, enlightening, and disruptive, Giberson establishes a long-overdue foundation for viable faith and challenges Christians to rediscover the wonder, mystery, and reality of their God.”
—Richard G. Colling, retired professor of Biology, Olivet Nazarene University. Professor Colling departed Olivet after thirty years of teaching because of criticism of his support of evolution in his book Random Designer
PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION: Our Common Ancestor
CHAPTER ONE: First Man or First Jew? The Mysterious Patriarch of the Tribe of Israel
CHAPTER TWO: The Two Essential Adams of the Apostle Paul
CHAPTER THREE: The Devil Made Them Do It: Adam’s Free Choice, and Ours
CHAPTER FOUR: The Original Sinner: Augustine’s Attack on Adam as Everyman
CHAPTER FIVE: The Late Middle Ages: Adam Everywhere
CHAPTER SIX: The Origin of Mrs. Cain (and the Posse That Chased Her Husband)
CHAPTER SEVEN: The First Man and The First Minutes: Adam and the Age of the Earth
CHAPTER EIGHT: Too Many Adams? Or None at All?
CHAPTER NINE: Mark of Cain, Curse of Ham: Is God a Racist?
CHAPTER TEN: The Creationist Über-Adam: Why the First Son Could Marry His Sister
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Science, Antiscience, and the Extinction of Adam
CONCLUSION: Wishful Thinking? We Are All Original Sinners
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A WORD ABOUT BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS
NOTES
INDEX
What is the future of a Christian faith that requires an untenable self-destructive original sin/salvation theology? Honest, candid, enlightening, and disruptive, Giberson establishes a long-overdue foundation for viable faith and challenges Christians to rediscover the wonder, mystery, and reality of their God.”
—Richard G. Colling, retired professor of Biology, Olivet Nazarene University. Professor Colling departed Olivet after thirty years of teaching because of criticism of his support of evolution in his book Random Designer
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