- Collection:
- Columbia Theological Seminary Manuscript Collection
- Title:
- Studies in Genesis 1-3
- Creator:
- Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921
- Date of Original:
- 1898
1903
1904 - Subject:
- Atonement
Biblical cosmology
Cosmogony
Cosmogony, Greek
Covenant theology
Creation
Devil--Christianity
Eschatology
Fall of man
Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene
Good and evil
Holy Spirit
Human beings--Origin
Monogenism and polygenism
Motherhood--Religious aspects
Presbyterians--Virginia
Presbyterian Church--Virginia
Sermons, American
Sin, Original
Bible--Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Genesis, I-III--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible--Genesis--Sermons
Bible--Old Testament
Bible--Old Testament--Relation to the New Testament
Adam (Biblical figure)
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895
Eve (Biblical figure)
Guyot, A. (Arnold), 1807-1884
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921--Sermons
Tyndall, John, 1820-1893
Sinking Springs Presbyterian Church (Hot Springs, Va.)
Presbyterian Church in the U.S--Sermons
Presbyterian Church in the U.S--Theology
Healing Springs (Va.)
Hot Springs (Va.)
Southern States
Virginia - Location:
- United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675
- Medium:
- fragments (object portions)
manuscripts (documents)
notes (documents)
sermons - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- A series of manuscript fragments, sermons, and notes by Samuel Spahr Laws primarily concerning the themes within the first three chapters of Genesis. Untitled fragment outline of the first three chapters of Genesis, with reference to various ancient cosmogonic theories and the “Mosaic Cosmogony”; ‘Gen. 3:11,’containing outlines of a study on origins of the human race, prohibition and consequences of eating of the tree, prelapsarian time, protoevangelium, the character of the serpent, and the origin of evil, undated; ‘Gen. 3:11,’ containing a manuscript fragment on Adam and Eve as first humans, with a note entitled “Conclusion of Psychozoic Era”; ‘Gen. 3:11,’ concerning the eating of forbidden fruit by Adam and Eve as an act disobedience with consideration of the fall of Satan and its effects, sermon delivered at Healing Springs [Sinking Springs Presbyterian Church (Hot Springs, Va.)], August 3, 1903; ‘Gen. 3:11,’ concerning the fall of Adam and Eve as an act of disobedience with discussion of sacrifice and atonement in the Old Testament and the role of the serpent as the devil in the Genesis narrative of the Fall and continuing work of evil in history, undated; ‘Gen. 3:11,’ sermon fragment [first page only] concerning theories about the unity and origin of the human race, delivered on January 26, 1904; untitled manuscript fragment [beginning at page 2] concerning the unity and origin of the human race, discusses the possible ages of Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel, and motivations of Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit with mention of order of creation, undated [portions of this appear in Laws inaugural address as Perkins Professor]; ’Gen. 3:15,’ manuscript outline of a work, followed by paginated fragments and notes, discussion of prelapsarian time, the Fall as an act of disobedience, motivation for the act, the origin of evil, and the character of the devil, undated; ‘The H. S. in Missions,’ containing a manuscript outline of a lecture concerning party to the covenant of grace and eschatology, Genesis 3:15, the history of Israel and the spiritual seed of Christ, presented at March Mission Day, March 1898; single page [7] fragment from an outline referencing Laws’s lectures on “anticipation or prediction in O & NTs,” proph[etic] preparation, and the relation between creation and consummation, undated.
Institution: C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives, John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary - Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17323coll7/id/6386
- IIIF manifest:
- https://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/p17323coll7:6386/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 59 pages
- Original Collection:
- S. S. Laws papers, 1878-1917
- Holding Institution:
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Rights:
-
