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Original Sin: Illuminating the Riddle is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

‘The Devil is wildly optimistic if he thinks he can make human beings worse than they are.’ One could hardly conceive of a darker flash of wit than this judgment from an acute observer of a former generation, the Viennese writer Karl Kraus (1874–1936). Kraus’s satirical barb surely earns him a front-row seat among pessimists, but who can deny that it touches reality? It certainly holds at least a measure of realism at the end of the century of Auschwitz and Kigali, of Beirut and Bosnia,
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