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Towards an Understanding of the Ontological Conditions issuing from Original Sin.
- Source :
- Heythrop Journal; Sep2019, Vol. 60 Issue 5, p739-768, 30p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to explore in the light of recent scientific discoveries, coupled with a return to biblical orthodoxy, the question of the Fall (Augustine and Paul, Gen. 3, Rom. 7), and the apparent intergenerational conditions of original sin. This is the human condition – East of Eden. Invoking Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection from random mutation as a means of repudiating the existence of original sin can no longer be sustained, scientifically; the biology of horizontal gene transfer (HGT), transgenerational epigenetics (TGE), accelerated evolution (AE) and biological plasticity (BP) has rendered Darwinism grounded in a Naturalistic methodology an inadequate explanation. If humanity is 'born this way' – mired in sin – have we condemned ourselves and our children to this status? How does this affect the relationship between biology and free will, between a form of predestination and decision‐making? Therefore, this paper is towards an understanding of the ontology of the original, or first, sin, and is a biblical and scientific exploration of postlapsarian humanity's self‐willed state, 'East of Eden.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00181196
- Volume :
- 60
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Heythrop Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137943529
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.12346