Adam's Fall and Rise

The other day I overheard two theologians arguing a little playfully over whether, given God’s plan of salvation, aliens on another planet would need their own separate savior or whether Christ would do for the whole universe. One theologian argued that aliens would need a savior of their own flesh. The other said that Christ died once for all, and that would include aliens.

Their argument reminded me of Karl Giberson’s book, for it paralleled arguments in the 19th century about race and salvation that hinged on the question of whether more than one Adam was needed to account for the varieties of people on the earth.