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
Last Adam of about Adam being created in the divine image. If so, Paul would be thinking here of Christ as the ideal Adam, with his humanity perfectly expressing the divine image. But this exegesis is not fully convincing. One may likewise be less than fully convinced by those who find a reference to Adam in two hymnic or at least poetic passages: and . Colossians 1:15 In , Christ is called "the image ("eikōn") of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation". In isolation, this verse could be taken merely in an Adamic sense as referring to Christ as the