Why Eden Sank to Grief
by Cole S. AronsonThe true servant of God consecrates to his creator not only the things human beings find most instinctively pleasurable, but also the elevated things. Continue Reading »
A Tale of Two Cities—And of Two Churches
by John HaldaneYou will recall the lapidary opening of Dickens’s famous novel of London and Paris in the period of the French Revolution. Headed ‘Book I—Recalled to Life: Chapter I: The Period” it begins: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. . . .” For reasons that will quickly become . . . . Continue Reading »
Liberty Adrift
by Fr. Dominic Bouck
How America's Original Sin Still Haunts Us in the Fourteenth Amendment
Original Sin: A Disputation
by Edward T. OakesNo doctrine inside the precincts of the Christian Church is received with greater reserve and hesitation, even to the point of outright denial, than the doctrine of original sin. Of course in a secular culture like ours, any number of Christian doctrines will be disputed by outsiders, from the . . . . Continue Reading »
Sin, Theodicy & Politics
by James NuechterleinIt is a pleasure to recommend to readers Father Edward Oakes’ masterful essay on original sin elsewhere in this issue. My own pleasure in reading it was augmented by the reflections, both personal and political, it triggered in me. It was the doctrine of original sin that made me, in my youth, an . . . . Continue Reading »
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