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Perspectives on the Fall of Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

John King-Farlow  and
David Wesley Hunt
John King-Farlow
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2E5
David Wesley Hunt
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2E5
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Extract

The Book of Genesis' story of how Adam and Eve were created innocent and brought about their own Fall evokes at least this particular kind of puzzlement: How could the two originally created and perfectly innocent humans, living in the presence of God and his supreme goodness, be persuaded to defy God and his special commands?

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , June 1982 , pp. 193 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1982

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References

1 Cf. Huby, Pamela, ‘The First Discovery of the Free Will Problem’, Philosophy XLII, 162, 1967, pp. 353–362.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 We are indebted for ideas and for a sentence to DrJenkinson, J. A., author of the doctoral dissertation Tillich: God, Man and Religious Symbols (University of Alberta, 1972)Google Scholar. For more discussions of personae and the Master Self see King-Farlow, John, ‘Akrasia, Self-Mastery and the Master-Self’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly II (1981), pp. 47–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar