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In Quest of the Historical Adam

Book by William Lane Craig

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ129786821 ↗
Source-derived summary

In Quest of the Historical Adam: A Biblical and Scientific Exploration is a 2021 book by the Christian philosopher William Lane Craig.

References

Sources

Spencer, Daniel (2022). "William Lane Craig. In Quest of the Historical Adam: A Biblical and Scientific Exploration". Journal of Analytic Theology. 10: 700–705. doi:10.12978/jat.2022-10.030011181517. ISSN 2330-2380.

Gaine, Simon Francis (2023). "In Quest of the Historical Adam: A Biblical and Scientific Exploration by William Lane Craig".

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “In Quest of the Historical Adam” is book by William Lane Craig. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Quest, Historical and Adam, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2022, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Quest, Historical and Adam is the immediate research focus.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q129786821. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2022 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “In Quest of the Historical Adam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.