Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Genesis 2-3

  • THE HISTORICAL ADAM AND OTHER MYTHS: MEDITATIONS ON THE PAST, PART 3

    The importance of the past In his introduction to Athanasius’s On Incarnation, C. S. Lewis suggested that one should read at least one old book for every new one. By old, he had in mind books from the previous century and beyond. He mentions in a single breath St. Luke, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas,…

  • SEEING WHAT’S THERE: THE NEED FOR THEOLOGICAL RECONSIDERATION

    When a few years ago I set out to read some of the great writers of the American West, I started with Wallace Stegner. It turned out to be a good choice. The first Stegner I read, Angle of Repose (1971), was a revelation. In the book, 1972 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Stegner adopts…

  • Barbie and Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights

    I’ve been away. Hence, the silence from this quarter. Among other things, while away, I had the opportunity to ponder again Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights at the marvelous Prado in Madrid. I was delighted to discover that it includes a Barbie house and predation in the Garden of Eden, both of which I’ve…