Four Views on the Historical Adam presents four positions on whether Adam was a historical individual and how Genesis relates to the scientific account of human origins. Edited by Matthew Barrett and Ardel Caneday, the contributors are Denis Lamoureux arguing an evolutionary creation view with no historical Adam, John Walton for an archetypal Adam, C. John Collins for an old-earth historical Adam, and William Barrick for a young-earth historical Adam, with concluding reflections by Gregory Boyd and Philip Ryken.

Part of Zondervan's Counterpoints series, the book exists to set positions against each other rather than to advocate one, and readers should expect to encounter views they reject, including the denial of a historical Adam. That is what makes it useful for pastors and students who need to understand the actual arguments rather than summaries of them.