Adam and Eve as archetypes of human nature are more alive now than ever. They in us want to find what they lost in the beginning. But they are still facing three ancient and traditional walls. They cannot climb over, tunnel under, or break through them. They can only find the doors in these walls and open them. Eve, especially, wants to do so. She was the first to lose the gift. But she cannot find and pass through the doors alone. She needs to do so together with Adam. The walls represent barriers in their personhood, in their likeness to God, and in their view of their origin. Though redeemed, Adam and Eve continue to think that they are basically animals, that they have no spousal likeness to what seems to be the masculine face of God, and that they were created in parts: body first and soul added. Adam and Eve within us are ready to search for doors in walls that open to a sunburst of new discoveries. This book reveals their desire to recover in us what they, and we too, lost in the beginning.

The Future of Adam and Eve

Joyce, Mary Rosera

Religion & Spirituality

Lifecom

This book develops the meaning of creation by saying how God must have created "out of nothing" perfect finite persons only, and had to create "out of something" --out of the remnants of our response--something that was crashed or fallen: in order to redeem those who said MAYBE in the originative creation. GENESIS is shown to be the story of the second creation (out of dust, a rib, et al.)and quite distinct from the first creation. Creationists and evolutionists share the same flaw. They think of creation or the origin of things as involving a process, whether that process is six days or six aeons.The inheritance of original sin from Adam is seen as the immediate vehicle through which everyone conceived in this world inherits his or her own originative sin, committed along with Adam and Eve in response to the originative creation (out of nothing).This volume is the second of a trilogy, entitled WHEN GOD SAID BE, WE SAID MAYBE: AN INSIDE STORY OF THE CREATION, THE CRASH, AND THE RECOVERY OF BEING.

God Says, We Say: The Interpersonal Act of Redemption

Joyce, Robert

God Will Say, We Will Say

A new look at the Creation story. We do not understand the Genesis account adequately in thinking that the creation of Adam and Eve from dust and a rib is the same as their creation out of nothing. God creates ex nihilo only perfect persons with perfect freedom to respond fully to the gift of being. God also could not permit or even allow any person to be hit with the sin of his parents, including first parents, unless that person (each one of us)is already implicated in evil and said less than a full yes to the gift of unique being out of nothing. The Genesis account tells not about creation out of nothing, but a creation out of something: darkness, chaos,dust, a rib, et al. This book represents a stark revision of Judeo-Christian belief in key matters of origin, while affirming traditional Revelation and teaching as well.

Why Blame Adam and Eve?

FACING THE DARK SIDE OF GENESIS: A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF OURSELVES claims that religious thinkers have overlooked a crucial aspect of the truth: God's creating act is necessarily interpersonal and immediately causes perfect creatures only. These persons, both angelic and human, necessarily respond instantly with full freedom. The new interpretation for understanding better who we are--and who we are not--integrates and deepens traditional belief in God. Attention is given to the profoundly unconscious dimensions of the mind and heart, largely neglected, that emerge from the spiritual structure of being. This new theistic worldview suggests an expanded ground for understanding the conflict between creationists and evolutionists. The author discloses a general failure of theology to see the difference between creation absolutely out of nothing and the redemptive creation out of something that is fallen, as depicted in GENESIS.

Facing the Dark Side of GENESIS: A New Understanding of Ourselves

Joyce Ph.D., Robert E

Women and Choice a New Beginning

Joyce, Mary R.

Friends: For Teens

A Priest from the Heart

A challenge to all believers in God to raise their awareness of the power and beauty of their own being at creation and their failure to be perfect as they were gifted to be. In creation, God's act of gifting us with being yields a perfect created person, but we humans on earth are those who responded immediately with less than a perfect yes to the gift of being. The book calls for a significant shift in the worldview of God-centered people. The story of Adam and Eve is told in a provocative way that may make more sense than creationists and evolutionists could ever do. Creation out of nothing is radically distinguished from creation out of something, such as dust, a rib, a fall.

God Said, We Said: The Interpersonal Act of Creation

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