Eve rescued Adam: Without others we are not whole

2004

In their most recent work on marriage, Alice Mathews and Gay Hubbard—professor and guest lecturer at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary respectively—explore Godʼs design and purpose for marriage. Having received positive reviews from several leading evangelical scholars, such as Stanley Grenz, Gordon Fee, and Vernon Grounds, Marriage Made in Eden warrants considerable attention. Because Mathews and Hubbardʼs book represents a significant argument supporting egalitarianism, it also deserves a serious response. In this article, I will concentrate my analysis on the bookʼs contribution as it relates to the role of women, which appears to be the driving issue for the authors. I will divide this article into two sections. In the first, I will present the contents of the text, giving special attention to the arguments in favor of egalitarianism. In the second, I will evaluate and respond to the authorsʼ rationale

New Blackfriars, 1989

Abstract Adam and Eve are revered in Mormon theology. However, throughout history, theologians and others have misunderstood their courageous roles as the first humans on earth, and as the ones who initiated the Great Plan of Salvation into effect. This paper discusses the following points about Adam and Eve: their creation, Satan’s deception of Eve, the blessings of mortality, and their role as our patriarchal and matriarchal exemplars.

This paper is a reworking of my thesis with the same titel. In this article I intend to give Biblical support to the hypothesis of a humanity before Adam, without letting go of some sort of historicity of the story of Adam and "the fall" and the theology of redemption. The way in which I come to this conclusion is through a study of one of Genesis' main structural markers, the Toledot structure. The priciple of narrowing and selection can also be found in the first instances of the toledot formula (Gen 2.4 and 5.1), contrary to what many reseaches hold. This opens the way to view humanity in Gen 1 as some kind of pre-adamites, out of which Adam was chosen to represent all of the (existing!) humanity with YHWH God is his garden.

philippiniana Sacra

The human person is destined to God, and is morally and naturally ordered to be with God, his/her absolute end. In Genesis, for man to be alone is not good (Gen. 2:18), and so He created the helpmate, the woman. Hence, major philosophies adopted this biblical account as the institutional foundation of Marriage. Through the centuries, theological views were articulated towards the ends/ purposes of marriage. From the Old Testament’s traditionally accepted procreative dimension, grounded on biblical perception as the propagation of species, regarded as the primary end by Pope Leo XIII in the 18th century; to Vatican and Pope John Paul II’s emphasis on mutual love; and with the confronting secular opinions- developments and new ends of marriage are likely to emerge. The “GOOD OF THE HUMAN PERSON” encapsulates the ends where marriage now points to a vertical union with the Creator, consistent with the spouses’ role, bestowed to them in creation.

Partnership in Mission, 2024

This paper gives an answer to the question "how should partnership in mission be in todays' contexts?", by exploring the marital relatioship in a biblical passage. this passage from Ecclesiastes helps in understanding how partnership works. The complementarity in the marital relationship of Adam and Eve is really a good model of partnership. Alone, Adam would not achieve better results; then God created a helper, a partner to take care of the creation (Gen 2:15). This teaches us that reliable and complementary partner is a gift from God. He Himself creates the context where and when partners in His mission would meet, exactly like in Eden. Accordingly, partnership starts from this feeling of incompleteness that leads to need for collaboration (v9), and asks partners to mutually support and empower (v10), in unity (v11) and to be committed to the mission (v12), and this, whatever may happen, by keeping God at center.

PARADIGM, 2019

The search for human creation story is very interesting to discuss if it is viewed with a different perspective from mainstream story. The story of human creation is commonly called the story of Adam and Eve. Often, the story we hear is implicated in the marginalization of woman through Eve because she was created from Adam’s ribs, and she was the cause of Adam’s sin by eating fruit which was forbidden by God. The story is confirmed in the Bible so that it can give rise to biased interpretations. This study will offer another perspective in reading the stories of Adam and Eve written in the scriptures from Genesis 2 and 3. The postmodern feminist theory will be employed in rereading the figure of Eve in the Bible. The idea of this theory is that Liyan as a way to exist. Hence, the figure of Eve is attributed to the figure of Liyan who has the ability to exist. Analysis of this Eve figure will be focused on Julia Kristeva’s view of the abject concept. Eventually, the concept of abjec...

This document presents the details of the days of the Creation through the "Reading Grid" detailed in chapter 1, and proposes an analogy with the cosmic cycles at work. It details the Creation process of setting the conditions for the Adam (human creature) to be able to leave his animal state and later embark on his spiritual journey, by identifying and mastering the energies brought forward by Elohim-the-Creator. In this approach, the Creation is about the future spiritual journey of Man, and not at all concerned with the physical world - except from a time perspective - where Eden is "time" and where the Garden is "eternity" (out of time).