In Adam's Fall: A Meditation on the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin

Acknowledgments.

Part I: Setting the Stage: The Problem of Original Sin:.

1. Creation Gone Wrong: Thinking about Sin.

A Doctrine Grown Strange.

Biblical Configurations of Sin.

Contemporary Attempts to Reclaim Sin-Talk.

Original Sin and Actual Sin.

2. Original Sin as Christian Doctrine: Origins, Permutations, Problems.

The Emergence of the Doctrine.

The Augustinian Turn.

Augustinian Revisions.

Assessment.

Part II: Reconfiguring the Debate: Sin, Nature, and the Will:.

3. Augustine of Hippo: Willing and the Ambiguity of Desire.

Augustine’s Views in Outline.

Concupiscence: Humanity Internally Divided.

The Fall: Humanity Temporally Divided.

Assessing Augustine’s Doctrine of the Will .

4. Maximus the Confessor: Willing Is Not Choosing.

Maximus’ Christology in Context.

Dyothelite Christology in Outline.

Maximus’ Analysis of the Will.

Maximus’ Interpretation of Christ’s Willing.

Anthropological Implications.

Conclusion.

5. The Status of Christ’s Will: Fallen or Unfallen?.

The Question in the Tradition.

Preliminary Assessment.

The Problem of Christ’s Will.

Theological Implications.

Part III: Reconstructing the Doctrine: Original Sin in Christian Practice:.

6. Original Sin and Human Nature: Solidarity in Sin.

Original Sin and the Damaged Will.

The Problem of the Origin of Original Sin.

Reconceiving the Ontology of Original Sin.

7. Original Sin and the Individual: Being a Sinner.

The Scope of Sin.

Sin and Agency.

From Actual Sin to Original Sin.

8. Original Sin and the Christian Life: Confronting Sin.

From Original Sin to Actual Sin.

Original Sin as Unbelief.

Vocation and the Defeat of Sin.

Conclusion.

References.

Index.