The Sources of the Doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin (Classic Reprint)

Hulsean Lectures on The Origin and Propagation of Sin, which treated the subject described by their title critically and inductively, it was stated that the results of a historical study, then not completed, of the sources and development of the doctrines of the Fall andO riginal Sin, were inevitably presupposed throughout that work. These results are now placed before the reader. The purpose which their publication is hoped to fulfil is twofold. In the first place, such a historical inquiry as is here undertaken furnishes one criterion amongst others as to the validity and finality of the doctrines previously criticised and restated ;and thus the present work embodies an argument supplementary to those offered in the Hulsean Lectures. Secondly, it is hoped that some small service may be rendered to the student of doctrine by collecting together, into small compass, the literature, both ancient and modern, dealing with the sources of the Hebrew Fall-story and with the growth, from that narrative, of the Jewish and Christian theories concerning the origin and diffusion of human sinfulness.
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