Original sin : a cultural history / Alan Jacobs.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : HarperOne, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 286 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780060783402
  • 0060783400
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT 720 .J33 2008
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Contents:
Six stories -- The African bishop -- Some dreadful thing no doubt -- The feast of all souls -- A few words about the Devil -- The wicked, but not very -- More hateful than vipers -- New worlds -- The confraternity of the human type -- The two-headed calf -- In the genes.
Summary: A cultural history of the idea that people are born with a predisposition to evil shares the stories of the philosophy's proponents and disclaimers, citing the contributions of such figures as St. Augustine, G.K. Chesterton, and Blaise Pascal.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-286).

Six stories -- The African bishop -- Some dreadful thing no doubt -- The feast of all souls -- A few words about the Devil -- The wicked, but not very -- More hateful than vipers -- New worlds -- The confraternity of the human type -- The two-headed calf -- In the genes.

A cultural history of the idea that people are born with a predisposition to evil shares the stories of the philosophy's proponents and disclaimers, citing the contributions of such figures as St. Augustine, G.K. Chesterton, and Blaise Pascal.

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