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Record Nr.

UNISA996309127103316

Autore

Przyszychowska Marta

Titolo

We Were All in Adam : The Unity of Mankind in Adam in the Teaching of the Church Fathers / / Marta Przyszychowska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2018

Warsaw ; ; Berlin : , : De Gruyter Open Poland, , [2019]

©2018

ISBN

3-11-062058-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Disciplina

233/.14

Soggetti

Sin, Original

Theology, Doctrinal

Original Sin, Fathers of the Church, Patristics

RELIGION / Christian Church / History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 General Issues -- 3 Real Unity of Human Nature -- 4 Mankind in Adam's Loins -- 5 Unity in the Stoic Sense -- 6 Adam as a Representative of Mankind -- 7 Conclusion -- Indices

Sommario/riassunto

Contrary to a common conviction, original sin is one of the fundamental Patristic issues, because it is the starting point of Patristic anthropology and sets the stage for the need for salvation.The Church Fathers before Augustine did not used the term "original sin", but described its reality, having the greatest possible feeling for the mystical unity of mankind with its first ancestor. As regards the issue of the unity of human nature in Adam, the East and the West speak with one voice, which is first to be found in Irenaeus' works.