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The Fall
One act of disobedience in the garden, and sin and death entered the human story
The Fall names the primal disobedience of Adam and Eve, narrated in Genesis 3, through which sin and death entered the human condition. Paul reflects on it in Romans 5, and Fathers such as Irenaeus and Augustine drew out its meaning for human nature and the need for redemption. The doctrine is held across the Christian traditions as a foundation for understanding sin, mortality, and grace.
How it traveled
- RomansCorinth · 67explains
- Against Heresies: Book VLyons · 202explains
- On the Resurrection of the Flesh.— · 220explains
- The Instructions of Commodianus.— · 220explains
- Ephraim Syrus: The Nisibene HymnsEdessa · 373explains
- The Incarnation of the WordAlexandria · 373explains
- Select Orations of Saint Gregory NazianzenNazianzus · 390explains
- On the Making of ManNyssa · 395explains
- The Great CatechismNyssa · 395explains
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the RomansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies of St. John ChrysostomConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- Homilies on First CorinthiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies on the Statues to the People of AntiochConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. JohnConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Letters of St. JeromeBethlehem · 420explains
- City of GodHippo Regius · 430explains
- On Marriage and ConcupiscenceHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of InfantsHippo Regius · 430explains
- The ConfessionsHippo Regius · 430explains
- Expositions on the Book of PsalmsHippo Regius · 430explains
- The EnchiridionHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on Nature and GraceHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise Against Two Letters of the PelagiansHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original SinHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on Rebuke and GraceHippo Regius · 430explains
- Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. JohnHippo Regius · 430explains
- Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the ManichæansHippo Regius · 430explains
- Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New TestamentHippo Regius · 430explains
- John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox FaithDamascus · 749explains
- Anselm's Cur Deus HomoCanterbury · 1109explains
- Treatise on Man (qq[75]-102)Paris · 1274explains
- Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)Paris · 1274explains
- Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the GospelGeneva · 1564explains
- Book First. of the Knowledge of God the CreatorGeneva · 1564explains
- The great christian doctrine of original sin defendedNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- Seventeen Occasional SermonsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- a careful and strict inquiry into the prevailing notions of the freedom of willNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- A History of the Work of RedemptionNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvationNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- The Wisdom of God Displayed in the Way of SalvationNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
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Modern and living teachers whose books take up The Fall. These works are still in copyright, so we can’t show the text here — each links out to the book.
- C. S. LewisThe Problem of Pain(1940)View on Amazon→