What Happened in the Garden? : the Reality and Ramifications of the Creation and Fall of Man edited by Abner Chou.
Grand Rapids, MI : Kregel Publications, 2016. 302 pages. Price: $19.99 ISBN: 978-0825442094 0825442095
Expected publication date: April 27, 2016
Summary: Evangelicals are no strangers to creation and evolution debate . Now the argument has spread beyond the contents of the creation account in Genesis 1 and into Genesis 2-3, with speculation about the historicity of Adam and Eve and the Fall. But does it matter which position one holds? Is anything really at stake?
The faculty of The Master’s College have come together to show that this more than merely an ivory-tower debate, that its implications actually strike at the very core of our collective experience: the legal system, literature, gender roles, education, psychology, and science.
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. Far from irrelevant, the theology and historicity of Genesis are in fact critical to our everyday lives.
Table of contents:
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction / Abner Chou
Part 1 Reality of Genesis 2-3
Chapter 1 – “Did God Really Say?”—Hermeneutics and History in Genesis 3 / Abner Chou
Chapter 2 – Adam and the Animals / Todd Charles Wood and Joseph W. Francis
Chapter 3 – Genetics of Adam / Todd Charles Wood and Joseph W. Francis
Chapter 4 – Genesis 3—A Map of Misreadings / Grant Horner
Part 2 / Theological Ramifications of the Creation and Fall
Chapter 5 – Genesis 3 and Original Sin / Paul R. Thorsell
Chapter 6 – The Seed and Schaeffer / William Varner
Part 3 Worldview Ramifications of the Creation and Fall
Chapter 7 – After the Fall—Three Effects on Human Enterprise / R. W. Mackey II
Chapter 8 – Thermodynamics and the Fall—How the Curse Changed Our World / Taylor B. Jones
Chapter 9 – In Re Adam and Eve / Reflections on the Creation and Fall of Man-A Legal Perspective
Chapter 10 – The Significance of Sin for the Psychologies / Ernie Baker
Chapter 11 – “He Made Them Male and Female”—The Image of God, Essentialism, and the Evangelical Gender Debate / Jo Suzuki
Chapter 12 – The Historical Adam in Education—Why Keeping Him Real in Our Curriculum Matters / Alexander Granados
Chapter 13 – A Sin of Historic Proportions / John MacArthur
Conclusion
