THE GARDEN AND THE CITY A Biblical Map of Human Becoming

The Garden and the City: A Biblical Map of Human Becoming

Sharon Higgins

What if the stories of Scripture are not records of the past but maps of the present? What if every reader is already living inside them?

The Garden and the City traces the Bible's most enduring narratives as patterns of human transformation, from Eden's original wholeness to the New Jerusalem's restored community, from Cain's crisis of identity to Noah's passage through collapse and renewal. Each story, read carefully, reveals the interior architecture of a life in motion.

Drawing on biblical wisdom, psychology, philosophy, and leadership studies, Sharon Higgins introduces the E.P.I.C. framework (Encounter, Process, Integration, and Contribution) as a guide to how transformation actually unfolds: not as a single event, but as a recurring journey available at every stage of life.

For readers navigating seasons of change, searching for purpose, or seeking the deeper logic beneath their own story, this book offers what ancient Scripture has always offered and what the modern world urgently needs: not merely inspiration, but orientation. A way of understanding where you are, how you got here, and where the journey is going.

The Garden and the City makes the case that the Bible is not a closed history. It is a living map, and you are somewhere on it.