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- Saving the Original Sinner : How Christians Have Used the Bible's First Man to Oppress, Inspire, and Make Sense of the World
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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. The Bible's first man stands at the center of a crisis that is shaking much of Christianity. In the evangelical world, scholars have been ostracized and banished from their academic communities for endorsing a modern scientific understanding of the world, even as they remained strong Christians. Self-appointed gatekeepers of traditional theology demand intellectual allegiance to an implausible interpretation of the Genesis creation story, insisting that all humanity must be descended from a single, perfect human pair, Adam and Eve. Such a view is utterly at odds with contemporary science. It wasn't always this way. Karl Giberson spotlights the venerable tradition of Christian engagement with new knowledge and discoveries. When global exploration, anthropology, geology, paleontology, biblical studies, and even linguistics cast doubt on the historicity of Adam and his literal fall into sin, Christians responded by creatively reimagining the creation story, letting Adam "evolve" to accommodate his changing context. Even conservative evangelical institutions until recently encouraged serious engagement with evolutionary science, unhindered by the straitjacket of young-earth creationism, intelligent design, or other views demanding that Adam be a historical figure. Giberson calls for a renewed conversation between science and Christianity, and for more open engagement with new scientific discoveries, even when they threaten central doctrines. Christians should not be made to choose between their faith and their understanding of the universe. Instead, as Giberson argues, they should follow in the once robust tradition of exploring science openly within the broad contours of Christian belief.
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Saving the Original Sinner : How Christians Have Used the Bible's First Man to Oppress, Inspire, and Make Sense of the World
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Trade Paperback
Language
English
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Christian Theology / Systematic, Blasphemy, Heresy & Apostasy, Fundamentalism, Biblical Biography / Old Testament, Christianity / General, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Religion
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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8.8 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
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"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 "Was Adam the first human being and was his poor choice to eat the forbidden fruit the 'original sin' that ruined things for the rest of us? That's the question that just won't go away, and for many fundamentalist and evangelical Christians today it is the hill to die on--and the hill on which to sacrifice those who disagree. Through surveying the history of Adam from ancient Israel to the current crisis, and rooted in his own extensive experience, Giberson gives us a compelling, engaging, and accessibly written exposé of this troubling trend--and points us toward a better way of embracing this foundational biblical story." --Peter Enns is Abram S. Clemens professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University, and author of The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It . Professor Enns was forced to leave Westminster Theological Seminary after 14 years of teaching and administration because of his book Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and The Problem of the Old Testament. "Saving the Original Sinne r chronicles Christianity's long struggle to understand the meaning of Adam and his Fall into sin, even as it became clear that Adam never existed. Giberson pays homage to those souls bold enough to wrestle with this reality--and who often paid a heavy price for their efforts to integrate the findings of science with the Christian faith. I join those scholars in gratitude for this wise, informative, eloquent, and yet troubling book. The intellectual viability of evangelicalism may well depend on whether its institutions act with the courage that Giberson commends to them." --John Schneider teaches philosophy at Grand Valley State University and is publishing actively on the implications of evolutionary science for Christian Faith. Long a leading evangelical theologian, Professor Schneider was forced to leave Calvin College after 25 years of teaching for publishing a paper suggesting that Adam and Eve were not historical figures.
Table of Content
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
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