Titre :	The quest for the historical Adam : genesis, hermeneutics, and human origins
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	William VanDoodewaard, Auteur
Editeur :	Grand Rapids : Reformation Heritage Books
Année de publication :	c2015
Importance :	XIV, 345 p.
Présentation :	Cover illustred in color
Format :	23 cm
Note générale :	Includes bibliographical references.
Langues :	Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Adam (Biblical figure) Bible. -- Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Theological anthropology--Biblical teaching
Index. décimale :	BS 580.A4
Résumé :	Was Adam really a historical person, and can we trust the biblical story of human origins? Or is the story of Eden simply a metaphor, leaving scientists the job to correctly reconstruct the truth of how humanity began? Although the church currently faces these pressing questions -- exacerbated as they are by scientific and philosophical developments of our age -- we must not think that they are completely new. In Lire la suite...
Note de contenu :	Finding Adam and his origin in scripture -- The Patristic and medieval quest for Adam -- Adam in the Reformation and post-Reformation eras -- Adam in the enlightenment era -- Adam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The quest for Adam: from the 1950s to the present -- What difference does it make? -- Literal genesis and science.

The quest for the historical Adam : genesis, hermeneutics, and human origins [texte imprimé] / William VanDoodewaard, Auteur . - Grand Rapids : Reformation Heritage Books, c2015 . - XIV, 345 p. : Cover illustred in color ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Adam (Biblical figure) Bible. -- Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Theological anthropology--Biblical teaching
Index. décimale :	BS 580.A4
Résumé :	Was Adam really a historical person, and can we trust the biblical story of human origins? Or is the story of Eden simply a metaphor, leaving scientists the job to correctly reconstruct the truth of how humanity began? Although the church currently faces these pressing questions -- exacerbated as they are by scientific and philosophical developments of our age -- we must not think that they are completely new. In Lire la suite...
Note de contenu :	Finding Adam and his origin in scripture -- The Patristic and medieval quest for Adam -- Adam in the Reformation and post-Reformation eras -- Adam in the enlightenment era -- Adam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The quest for Adam: from the 1950s to the present -- What difference does it make? -- Literal genesis and science.