Last Adam In 1 Corinthians 15:22, Paul argues that "as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive," while in verse 45 he calls Jesus the "last/ultimate/final Adam". John Henry Newman used the phrase "Second Adam" in his hymn "Praise to the Holiest in the height", first appearing in "The Dream of Gerontius": O loving wisdom of our God!<br> When all was sin and shame,<br> A second Adam to the fight<br> And to the rescue came. The title "New Adam" is emphasised in the Recapitulation theory of atonement. Paul the Apostle contrasted Adam and Christ as two corporate
What Work Is sometimes been criticized for leaning too hard on his blue-collar "bona fides". The critic Adam Kirsch, writing in "The Times Book Review" in 1999, noted, accurately enough, that “in his autobiographical essays he goes out of his way to tell us that he is essentially a peasant.” David Baker, writing about "What Work Is" (1991) in the "Kenyon Review", said Levine has “one of our most resonant voices of social conviction and witness, and he speaks with a powerful clarity…What Work Is may be one of the most important books of poetry of our time. Poem after poem confronts the