Rediscovered Thomas Cole Letter: New Light on the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Thomas Cole ◽  
Christopher Kent Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Thomas Cole

The Garden as Unfinished Narrative of the Good in C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-80
Author(s):  
Evrea Ness-Bergstein
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Growth And Change ◽  
Literary Devices ◽  
Hortus Conclusus

In Lewis’ transposition of Milton’s Paradise to a distant world where Adam and Eve do not succumb to Satan, the structure of Eden is radically different from the enclosed garden familiar to most readers. In the novel Perelandra (1944), C.S. Lewis represents the Garden of Eden as an open and ‘shifting’ place. The new Garden of Eden, with Adam and Eve unfallen, is a place of indeterminate future, excitement, growth, and change, very unlike the static, safe, enclosed Garden—the hortus conclusus of traditional iconography—from which humanity is not just expelled but also, in some sense, escapes. The innovation is not in the theological underpinnings that Lewis claims to share with Milton but in the literary devices that make evil in Perelandra seem boring, dead-end, and repetitive, while goodness is the clear source of change and excitement.

Sacred Trees in the Garden of Eden and Their Ancient Near Eastern Precursors

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-301
Author(s):  
Michaela Bauks
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Space ◽  
Tree Of Life ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
1 Enoch

Interpretations of the trees in the Garden of Eden misunderstand their significance by focusing on sin or a theological “fall.” A tradition-historical approach to the motif of trees in ancient Near Eastern literature and imagery reveals their multivalent quality. Trees are connected with fertility and goddess devotion but also with the power and divine sanction given to kings and dynasties, and with the potency of sacred space, on which humans and the divine come together and meet. As cross-temporal motifs, trees are regularly associated with life-giving and blessing (a plant of rejuvenation; a tree of life); a connection of trees to knowledge and meaning appears as well, in wisdom literature, and in the book of 1 Enoch. Language of a world tree or cosmic tree, though useful conceptually, is a modern imposition on the ancient evidence. More evident from the ancient setting is the image of felling trees, which indicates the downfall of human leaders, especially kings, because of their hubris. Ultimately, sacred trees have an ambivalent value, as a source of both contestation and progress.

Thomas Cole, M.D., F.R.C.P

BMJ ◽  
1899 ◽  
Vol 1 (1987) ◽  
pp. 249-250
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Cole

scholarly journals The Evolution of Chemical Analysis

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Walter C. McCrone
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Analytical Instruments ◽  
Granite Rock ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Rabbit Carcass

On the eighth day, chemical analysis began. Adam, recovering after cooperating with God in creating Eve, felt the first pangs of hunger. Looking around, he spied a pile of stones left over after creation of some nearby mountains. He rejected a soft friable sandstone and chose a hard granite rock, took careful aim at a rabbit, and hit it squarely between the eyes. This was the basis for the first real meal in the Garden of Eden. A day or two later, Eue took a whiff of the rabbit carcass, thought for a moment, then fed it to the dog.Thus, the first chemical analytical instruments were Adam's eye and hand and Eve's nose. These, plus taste, sufficed by themselves for a long time thereafter but, eventually, refinements were necessary.

A Camera in The Garden of Eden

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-96
Author(s):  
Kevin P. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Garden Of Eden
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