Prefiguration, Apocalypse, Tragedy: Three Trajectories of Patristic Interpretation of the Adamic Fall
This essay examines three major (and to some degree overlapping) trajectories of patristic interpretation of the Adamic Fall in Genesis 3, all of which have considerable representation in early Christian writers. Following on the Pauline treatment of Adam especially in Romans 5, a first interpretive...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
2020
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Pro ecclesia
Year: 2020, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 407-428 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Genesis 3
/ Fall of Man
/ Church fathers
/ End of the world
/ Tragedy
/ Archetype
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IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBE Anthropology |
Further subjects: | B
Adam
B The Fall B Eve B Original Sin B Satan B Tragedy B Vice B Paradise |
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