In Adam′s Fall – A Meditation on the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin

Preface.
<p>Acknowledgments.</p>
<p>Part I: Setting the Stage: The Problem of Original Sin:.</p>
<p>1. Creation Gone Wrong: Thinking about Sin.</p>
<p>A Doctrine Grown Strange.</p>
<p>Biblical Configurations of Sin.</p>
<p>Contemporary Attempts to Reclaim Sin–Talk.</p>
<p>Original Sin and Actual Sin.</p>
<p>2. Original Sin as Christian Doctrine: Origins, Permutations, Problems.</p>
<p>The Emergence of the Doctrine.</p>
<p>The Augustinian Turn.</p>
<p>Augustinian Revisions.</p>
<p>Assessment.</p>
<p>Part II: Reconfiguring the Debate: Sin, Nature, and the Will:.</p>
<p>3. Augustine of Hippo: Willing and the Ambiguity of Desire.</p>
<p>Augustine s Views in Outline.</p>
<p>Concupiscence: Humanity Internally Divided.</p>
<p>The Fall: Humanity Temporally Divided.</p>
<p>Assessing Augustine s Doctrine of the Will .</p>
<p>4. Maximus the Confessor: Willing Is Not Choosing.</p>
<p>Maximus Christology in Context.</p>
<p>Dyothelite Christology in Outline.</p>
<p>Maximus Analysis of the Will.</p>
<p>Maximus Interpretation of Christ s Willing.</p>
<p>Anthropological Implications.</p>
<p>Conclusion.</p>
<p>5. The Status of Christ s Will: Fallen or Unfallen?.</p>
<p>The Question in the Tradition.</p>
<p>Preliminary Assessment.</p>
<p>The Problem of Christ s Will.</p>
<p>Theological Implications.</p>
<p>Part III: Reconstructing the Doctrine: Original Sin in Christian Practice:.</p>
<p>6. Original Sin and Human Nature: Solidarity in Sin.</p>
<p>Original Sin and the Damaged Will.</p>
<p>The Problem of the Origin of Original Sin.</p>
<p>Reconceiving the Ontology of Original Sin.</p>
<p>7. Original Sin and the Individual: Being a Sinner.</p>
<p>The Scope of Sin.</p>
<p>Sin and Agency.</p>
<p>From Actual Sin to Original Sin.</p>
<p>8. Original Sin and the Christian Life: Confronting Sin.</p>
<p>From Original Sin to Actual Sin.</p>
<p>Original Sin as Unbelief.</p>
<p>Vocation and the Defeat of Sin.</p>
<p>Conclusion.</p>
<p>References.</p>
<p>Index.</p>