Eve Critical Voices Flashcards
1
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C.S Lewis on why Eve fell
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- ‘Eve fell through pride’
2
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C.S Lewis on Eve persuading Adam to eat the fruit
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-‘ Murder’
3
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David Lowenstein on Adam and Eve as virtuous
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- ‘ It is important to notice that Adam and Eve remained unfallen until the fall itself… though fallible and capable of sinning’
4
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Anna Baldwin on women’s reason
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- ‘We see that Satan is exploiting Eve’s lack of reason, winding her in a rational yet absurd chain of self- contradicting arguments
5
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Anna Baldwin on admiration for Satan in place of Eve
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- ‘ invite us to feel not pity for her but contempt, not contempt for him but pleasure in his skill’
6
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Diane K. McCollum on the presentation of Eve
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- ‘He broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve as essentially a temptress and uniquely gave her responsible motives’
7
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Caroline Moore on the presentation of Eve
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- ‘ Milton shifts his interpretation of genesis away from conventional misogyny to give Eve more sympathy and more equality’
8
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Stanley Fish on logical reasoning vs faith
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-‘ Eve substitutes the law of reason and the evidence of things seen for the law of God’
