Paul's Adam and Paul's Christ

Reading Paul on Protology and Eschatology After Greek Patristic Theology and Modern Science

Alexander Khramov has successfully argued, in my opinion, for what he calls the “alterist” view of origins.¹ In this protology, the original state of human beings was angelic in character: not absolutely incorporeal (since in traditional Greek, Syriac, and indeed Latin theology up to Aquinas and after him in the Franciscan tradition, only God is absolute…