Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part
I: Setting the Stage: The Problem of Original Sin:.
1.
Creation Gone Wrong: Thinking about Sin.
A
Doctrine Grown Strange.
Biblical
Configurations of Sin.
Contemporary
Attempts to Reclaim Sin-Talk.
Original
Sin and Actual Sin.
2.
Original Sin as Christian Doctrine: Origins, Permutations, Problems.
The
Emergence of the Doctrine.
The
Augustinian Turn.
Augustinian
Revisions.
Assessment.
Part
II: Reconfiguring the Debate: Sin, Nature, and the Will:.
3.
Augustine of Hippo: Willing and the Ambiguity of Desire.
Augustine’s
Views in Outline.
Concupiscence:
Humanity Internally Divided.
The
Fall: Humanity Temporally Divided.
Assessing
Augustine’s Doctrine of the Will .
4.
Maximus the Confessor: Willing Is Not Choosing.
Maximus’
Christology in Context.
Dyothelite
Christology in Outline.
Maximus’
Analysis of the Will.
Maximus’
Interpretation of Christ’s Willing.
Anthropological
Implications.
Conclusion.
5.
The Status of Christ’s Will: Fallen or Unfallen?.
The
Question in the Tradition.
Preliminary
Assessment.
The
Problem of Christ’s Will.
Theological
Implications.
Part
III: Reconstructing the Doctrine: Original Sin in Christian Practice:.
6.
Original Sin and Human Nature: Solidarity in Sin.
Original
Sin and the Damaged Will.
The
Problem of the Origin of Original Sin.
Reconceiving
the Ontology of Original Sin.
7.
Original Sin and the Individual: Being a Sinner.
The
Scope of Sin.
Sin
and Agency.
From
Actual Sin to Original Sin.
8.
Original Sin and the Christian Life: Confronting Sin.
From
Original Sin to Actual Sin.
Original
Sin as Unbelief.
Vocation
and the Defeat of Sin.
Conclusion.
References.
Index.
