The biblical story of Adam's and Eve's fate in paradise (Gen 3) is one of the most powerful narrations in cultural history. As part of the biblical 'Primeval History', it has shaped the image of the human condition far beyond its theological content. This contribution first reconstructs the internal dynamics of the text as an anthropological drama about the loss of original familiarity with the world. The second part draws important trajectories of the Christian reception history of Gen 3. It was only then that this story was understood as story of the 'Fall of Man' and hence theologized as etiology for the human need of redemption. Yet the polyvalence of the text remained. In the modern period, the act of eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil could be understood as an important step towards human autonomy and dignity.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2016/3 Zweimonatsschrift (2016)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Oberdorfer, Bernd

Schlagwörter: Exegese Anthropologie Wirkungsgeschichte Sündenfall Gen 3,1-24