Scripture Text: Genesis 1:1 - 2:3

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

Makoto Fujimura, Art and Faith: A Theology of Making

God the Artist communicates to us first, before God the lecturer.

Gordon J. Wenham, Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden Story

The garden of Eden is not viewed by the author of Genesis simply as a piece of Mesopotamian farmland, but as an archetypal sanctuary, that is a place where God dwells and where man should worship him. Many of the features of the garden may also be found in later sanctuaries particularly the tabernacle or Jerusalem temple. These parallels suggest that the garden itself is understood as a sort of sanctuary.

Elisa Yukiko Weichbrodt, Redeeming Vision: A Christ ...