TY - BOOK AU - Jacobs,Alan TI - Original sin: a cultural history SN - 9780060783402 AV - BT 720 .J33 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - HarperOne KW - Sin, Original KW - History of doctrines N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0811/2008006582.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/2008006582-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0910/2008006582-b.html ER -