There has been a flurry of helpful resources on the historicity of Adam in the past few months, so I thought I’d collect some of them here. I don’t need to say anything beyond what is referenced below, except perhaps to put this discussion in context. If you have not come across this issue, consider yourself both fortunate and unfortunate; fortunate for not needing to wage this battle (yet), but unfortunate because of the possibility of being caught off guard when this issue creeps into your more immediate circle. Not everyone needs to engage the Adam question in the same way on the same level, but there is something to be said for being prepared to give a defense for what has already come down the evangelical pike. The issue is also systemic, so chances are that if you’re reading about hermeneutics, the creation debates, typology of first Adam/second Adam, NT use of OT, etc. you’ll likely touch on something relevant to this topic. So I hope this collection can be a starting point on which to build.

Resources:

• John Piper: Was Adam for Real and Does it Matter? (6 min audio)
• John Piper: Why Adam Matters for Global Missions (4 min audio)
• Richard Gaffin: “All Mankind, Descending From Him…?” (article)
• J.P. Veerstag: Adam in the New Testament: Mere Teaching Model or First Historical Man? (translated by Richard Gaffin, with sample pages at WTS Books link) (book)
• Carl Trueman: “Adam and Eve and Pinch Me” (article)
• Lane Tipton: “Adam in the New Testament” (51 min lecture)
• Lane Tipton: “Adam and Christ in Systematic Theology” (72 min lecture)
• Mike Reeves: “Adam and Eve” (article)
• Albert Mohler: “False Start? The Controversy Over Adam and Eve Heats Up” (article)
• Albert Mohler: “Adam and Eve: Clarifying Again What Is at Stake” (article)
• Mike Reeves: “Why the Good News Turns Bad Without Adam” (article)
• Rick Phillips: “The Historical Adam” (Reformed Forum episode)
• Lane Tipton: “Redemptive-historical Hermeneutics” (Reformed Forum episode)
• Mohler, Brand, Hamilton, Schreiner, Wellum: “Adam and the Gospel: Is a Historical Adam Necessary?” (49 min audio/video)