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Original Sin or Original Sinfulness?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

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Copyright © The author 2009. Journal compilation © The Dominican Council 2009

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2 Ibid., 85.

3 The Grail translation of the Psalms (Fontana Collins 1963).

4 St Augustine, Confessions, Book 1, Chapter 1. There are many editions.

5 Lonergan, Bernard SJ, “Natural Knowledge of God” in A Second Collection (Darton, Longman and Todd 1974), 127–8Google Scholar; also ch 9 of Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Vol 17 (University of Toronto Press, 2004). Karl Rahner has a similar insight which he expresses somewhat differently. See Rahner, Karl SJ, The Spirit in the Church (Burns and Oates 1979)Google Scholar, 14–15.

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8 Ibid., 150. Bonhoeffer's comments can be found in his Ethiks al Gestaltung.

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13 Ibid., 8.

14 Ibid., 15.

15 Bernard Lonergan, summarizing the views of Paul Ricoeur, comments: “among the Hebrews, moral defect was first experienced as defilement, then conceived as the people's violation of its covenant with God, and finally felt as personal guilt before God, where, however, each later stage did not eliminate the earlier but took it over to correct it and to complement it.” Method in Theology (Darton, Longman and Todd, 1972), 88Google Scholar.

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17 Ibid., 82–3.