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Adam, the Fall, and Original Sin: Theological, Biblical, and Scientific Perspectives is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Christian doctrines of original sin and the historical fall of Adam have been in retreat since the rise of modernity. Here leading scholars present a theological, biblical, and scientific case for the necessity of belief in original sin and the historicity of Adam and Eve in response to contemporary challenges. Representing various Christian traditions, the contributors shed light on recent...

Indeed, if apologetics is a component of the pastoral function of theology—as we would argue—then it is precisely by engaging such contemporary questions that Christian theology can have a powerful existential and pastoral traction in the lives of believers. There is no one chapter in this volume that can stand alone like Hercules and single-handedly rescue Adam from his rapidly diminishing theological, cultural, and scientific plausibility. However, when all the chapters are taken together as a
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