supposition that the fall is also a fall in physical capacities and death as well as moral capacities, the idea that human beings inherit tendencies toward wrongdoing through the damaged social context in which they are born is hard to refute. The early church was certainly not unanimous that this entailed, with Augustine, the inheritance of guilt as well as moral weakness. Ware concludes that while this theme is less well developed in the Eastern church, it is still present, that is, a recognition