Toward a New Account of the Fall, Informed by Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas Aquinas
This article argues that the doctrine of the Fall into sin is necessary to avoid compromising Scriptural teaching on the universality of sin or the goodness of creation. A new theory of the Fall, indebted to Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, and the author’s monograph Aquinas, Original Sin, and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
2020
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Pro ecclesia
Year: 2020, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 429-448 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Anselm, Canterbury, Erzbischof, Heiliger 1033-1109
/ Fall of Man
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
The Fall
B Aquinas B Temptation B the Fall and evolution B Original Sin B Hamartiology B Concupiscence B Anselm |
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| Summary: | This article argues that the doctrine of the Fall into sin is necessary to avoid compromising Scriptural teaching on the universality of sin or the goodness of creation. A new theory of the Fall, indebted to Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, and the author’s monograph Aquinas, Original Sin, and the Challenge of Evolution, is proposed, on which the Fall is comparable to the loss of a gifted inheritance. |
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| ISSN: | 2631-8334 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pro ecclesia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1063851220952325 |