Genesis2Paul exists to make a single, sustained claim: that Paul’s theology is intelligible only when read against the creational grammar established in Genesis.
Rather than treating Genesis as background material and Paul as the true starting point, this project works in the opposite direction. It begins with creation and traces how its patterns of order, relation, and glory are assumed and developed across Paul’s letters.
The theological convictions behind this project
Genesis2Paul is written from the conviction that Scripture is coherent, purposeful, and internally ordered.
The project assumes that theology does not begin with abstract systems or contemporary questions, but with the grammar of Scripture itself. Creational distinctions, relational order, and patterns of glory are not later impositions on the biblical text; they are part of its given structure.
This approach is shaped by classical Christian theology, careful biblical exegesis, and sustained engagement with the history of interpretation, while remaining attentive to the pastoral and ecclesial contexts in which Scripture is read.
Method and tone
The work gathered here is intentionally slow, cumulative, and text-driven.
Rather than offering quick resolutions to disputed questions, Genesis2Paul aims to trace how particular claims arise from Scripture itself, how they relate to one another, and how they function across multiple passages. This often requires careful attention to language, structure, and intertextual patterns.
The tone of the project is deliberately restrained. It seeks clarity rather than provocation, coherence rather than novelty, and understanding rather than polemic. Where disagreements are engaged, they are treated as invitations to deeper reading rather than as battles to be won.
Relation to contemporary debates
Many of the questions addressed in Genesis2Paul intersect with contemporary debates about gender, authority, obedience, submission, and power.
Rather than positioning itself within existing ideological frameworks, this project seeks to step back and ask more basic questions: What conceptual world does Scripture itself inhabit? What patterns of relation does it assume? And how do those patterns shape Paul’s argumentation?
By attending first to Genesis and then to Paul, Genesis2Paul aims to reframe disputed questions in a way that is accountable to the text, attentive to theological tradition, and resistant to both reductionism and reaction.
About — Section D pasted
Neil Kearns is a pastor-theologian engaged in long-form biblical and theological research, with particular focus on creation, personhood, and Pauline theology.
His work brings together sustained exegetical study, classical theological sources, and pastoral experience, seeking to hold academic rigor and ecclesial responsibility together. Much of the material on this site has developed over many years through preaching, teaching, writing, and ongoing theological dialogue.
Genesis2Paul functions both as a public presentation of this work and as a space for its continued development.