Culture Making Articles items tagged adam Culture Making Articles:Writing on Christianity and culture from Andy Crouch 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Copyright (c) 2025, Andy Crouch ExpressionEngine tag:culture-makers.com,2025:01:02 A name where there had been none tag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.1093 2025-01-02T22:53:00Z 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Andy Crouch andy@culture-making.com God is perfectly capable of naming every animal and giving Adam a dictionary—but he does not. He makes room for Adam’s creativity—not just waiting for Adam to give a pre-existing right answer to a quiz, but genuinely allowing Adam to be the one who speaks something out of nothing, a name where there had been none, and allowing that name to have its own being.


—Culture Making, p.109

]]> Moses writing in Eden tag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.605 2025-01-02T22:53:00Z 2025-01-03T22:54:05Z Andy Crouch andy@culture-making.com

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: ?I couldn't track down the exact reasoning why Moses would be writing in Eden, rather then just about it. I think it might best be viewed as a depiction of an inspired artist inhabiting his work. Perhaps Moses is writing the section of Genesis about Adam naming the animals ... making for a double-inhabitation. (Thanks to my art-history-savvy friend Ben for the suggestion.)?
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"Moses Writing in Eden," from the Leo Bible (the earliest surviving illustrated Byzantine Bible), c.940
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