Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Copyright page
- For our teachers
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- A Select List of Aquinas’s Works
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Metaphysics and the Ultimate Foundation of Reality
- Part III Epistemology
- Part IV Ethics
- Part V Philosophical Theology
- 13 Original Sin
- 14 The Incarnation
- 15 Evil, Sin, and Redemption
- 16 Resurrection and Eschatology
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
13 - Original Sin
from Part V - Philosophical Theology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2022
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Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Copyright page
- For our teachers
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- A Select List of Aquinas’s Works
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Metaphysics and the Ultimate Foundation of Reality
- Part III Epistemology
- Part IV Ethics
- Part V Philosophical Theology
- 13 Original Sin
- 14 The Incarnation
- 15 Evil, Sin, and Redemption
- 16 Resurrection and Eschatology
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
Summary
Western thinking about original sin gets its gravity from Augustine. Some orbit him. Others blast against him till they achieve escape velocity. Aquinas was in orbit, but in a distinctive path. I now explore Aquinas’s views. Aquinas believed in a historical Adam and Eve, and treated the Genesis account of the fall as literal, fly-on-the-wall, accurate history. To ease exposition, I speak within these assumptions.
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- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas , pp. 309 - 321Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022