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We live in a world shot through with evil. The twentieth century has witnessed suffering and human cruelty on a scale never before imagined. Yet, paradoxically, in recent years the doctrine of original sin has suffered neglect and ridicule. Henri Blocher offers a robust response in this philosophically sophisticated treatment of the biblical evidence for original sin. Interacting with the best...

‘Nothing is so easy to denounce, nothing is so difficult to understand.’ So wrote Augustine on original sin.1 To him the doctrine was a battlefield. The controversy has continued unabated through the centuries. The leaders of the Reformation, with the exception of Ulrich Zwingli,2 renewed the emphasis on the Augustinian view. It was included in the main confessions of faith in the Reformation churches, such as the Forty-two Articles framed by Archbishop
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