even fail to acknowledge its existence, a theology of sin has as one of its chief tasks that of description, informing us of what is the case, by naming and delineating what it is that sinners do. IV At this point, Barth takes up discussion of original sin in the section ‘The Fall of Man’. It is important that he does not tackle the matter head on, but in the context of a discussion of the radical and total nature of human corruption: ‘[W]e are dealing not merely with any corruptio, but with the corruptio