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"Adam is at the center of the picture now, and everything is described as being there for him and the woman: the garden, the rivers, and the animals."
from Time to Be Astonished (Sunday School Net)
This is My Body:A Call to Eucharistic Revival (Bishop Robert Barron)
(Adam and Eve) are to care for creation and, if I can put it this way, they are to be the spokespersons for it, appreciating its order with their illuminated minds and giving expression to its beauty with their well-trained tongues. . . Human beings were intended to be the means by which the whole earth would give praise to God, returning in love what God has given in love, uniting all things in a great act of worship.
This is why . . . Adam is represented in . . . rabbinic interpretation as a priest, the one who effects union between God and creation. As he walks with Yahweh in easy friendship in the cool of the evening, Adam is humanity--and by extension, the whole of the cosmos--as it is meant to be, caught up in a loop of grace, creaturely love answering divine love.
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