4. Does the traditional reading of Genesis 2–3 legitimate patriarchal attitudes and practices? What are some common misreadings of the second creation story?
5. What types of personal and social forms of distortion exist? How does the gospel address these conditions?
Suggested Readings
For background on Gregory of Nyssa’s understanding of the creation and fall of humans, see chapter 4 of Johannes Zachhuber, Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa (Boston: Brill, 2000) and chapter 11 of Morwenna Ludlow, Gregory of Nyssa: Ancient and (Post)modern (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). For a discussion of Bunyan’s theology, see Michael Davies, Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). For general background on Bunyan, see Anne Dunan-Page, The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). For a fuller exposition of Trible’s position, see chapter 4 of her God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978).
38. The work is also commonly cited by its Latin title, De Hominis opificio.
39. On the structure of Making, see Behr, “Rational Animal,” 66.
40. Gregory of Nyssa, On the Soul and the Resurrection, 55. Roth mentions that the character Macrina seems to argue two different positions in the dialogue regarding the passions. At times she speaks of the passions as attached to the original “passionless blessedness” of the soul (114) and at other times as them being part of the soul from the start (n. 20, 56–57).
41. Ibid., 57.
42. Behr, “Rational Animal,” 238.
43. Pascal, Pensees, n. 358, 99.
44. Scuiry, “Anthropology of St. Gregory of Nyssa,” 37.
45. Gregory of Nyssa, Great Catechism, 479.
46. Gregory of Nyssa, On the Soul and the Resurrection, 114.
47. Ibid., 119.
48. See Greaves, John Bunyan and English Nonconformity where he warns that “extreme caution must be used when employing [Grace Abounding] to construct Bunyan’s life and religious experience” (38).
49. Owens, “Introduction,” ix.
50. Bunyan, Doctrine of the Law, 25.
51. de Vries, John Bunyan on the Order of Salvation, 99.
52. James, Varieties of Religious Experience, 154.
53. Davies, “John Bunyan and Spiritual Autobiography,” 73–74.
54. Bunyan, Grace Abounding, 48.
55. Ibid., 14.
56. Ibid., 59.
57. Newey, “‘With the Eyes of My Understanding,’” 192.
58. Bunyan, Grace Abounding, 11.
59. Ibid., 14.
60. Ibid., 16.
61. Newey, “‘With the eyes of my understanding,’” 196.
62. Bunyan, Grace Abounding, 18.
63. Ibid., 29.
64. Ibid., 34.
65. Ibid., 51.
66. Ibid., 37–38.
67. Ibid., 53.
68. Wakefield, “Bunyan and the Christian Life,” 131–32.
69. Davies, Graceful Reading, 152–53.
70. Trible, “Eve and Adam,” 251.
71. Ibid., 251.
72. Ibid.
73. Kawashima, “A Revisionist Reading Revisited,” 50. Emphasis original.
74. Trible, “Eve and Adam,” 252.
75. Ibid., 253.
76. Ibid., 254.
77. Ibid., 252.
78. Ibid., 256.
79. Ibid., 257.
80. Ibid.
81. Koosed, “Coming of Age in Phyllis Trible’s World,” 16.