Jacobs, Alan,  1958- <br/><br/>
Original sin :  a cultural history / 
Alan Jacobs. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  HarperOne,  c2008. 
 - xviii, 286 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-286). 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780060783402 0060783400 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008006582 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Geschichte (umfassend) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sin, Original.<br/>Sin, Original--History of doctrines.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT 720  / .J33 2008