REFLECTIONS ON CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY

REFLECTIONS ON CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY

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REFLECTIONS ON CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY
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The Drama in the Garden of Eden

The Drama in the Garden of Eden

The first three of nine typological motifs

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The Drama in the Garden of Eden
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In the Scriptures, the story of creation and the fall of humankind is fundamental, dealing as it does with our very existence. We don’t fully understand our own existence and can never come to the bottom of it, but the book of Genesis gives us a narrative that we can recognize as being true to our common humanity. The idea that somehow we were made for Paradise, that we lost it and now long for it, has haunted us as a race and in our individual souls from time immemorial.

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