φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ
The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. William Shakespeare, King Lear (1606) In our last post we discussed the temptation and the fall from paradise. Today I want to look at the sins of Adam and Eve from a slightly different angle. Whether if it is the totalitarian kallipolis which…
I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself Genesis 3:10 I Here we are, the temptation and the fall from paradise. In many ways the story of the temptation and the fall from Eden was the corner piece of the jigsaw puzzle for me….
In Genesis 2:20 we get the statement of lack which then spurs on the divine creative energy. It says here that “for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.” With this, God creates Eve and with her interpersonal ethics and the pattern by which people will relate to one another, to the…
In the beginning there was relation, and in the act of turning toward the other, humanity was born. Martin Buber, I and Thou (1923) Today we bring the second chapter of Genesis to a close with the introduction of Eve. Today’s post will deal with Adam’s need for a helper, the differentiation of humanity into male…
I named them, as they passed, and understood Their Nature, with such knowledge God endued My sudden apprehension: but in these I wound not what methought I wanted still John Milton, Paradise Lost 1667 (Book VIII, lines 338-354) In our last posts we discussed Adam’s role in tending and keeping the garden and the prohibition…
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own…