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The 31 pages that link to Original sin, each with the reason it gives.

• Augustine of HippoRelated: Augustine argued that Adam’s fall left human beings unable to attain righteousness without grace.

• Paul the ApostleRelated: Later theologians developed this doctrine through influential readings of Paul’s account of Adam.

• BaptismRelated: Some churches connect infant baptism with cleansing from original sin.

• Book of GenesisRelated: Christian interpretations of the Eden story helped shape this doctrine.

• Human natureCompared with: It frames human nature as morally impaired rather than naturally innocent.

• Atonement in ChristianityRelated: Some atonement accounts address not only individual wrongdoing but humanity’s inherited condition.

• Grace in ChristianityRelated: The doctrine frames why Christians say humanity needs grace.

• Immaculate ConceptionRelated: The doctrine specifically teaches that Mary was preserved from this inherited condition.

• SinBroader topic: It names the inherited dimension of sin in influential Christian traditions.

• Imago DeiRelated: The doctrine raises the question of how sin affects, but does not erase, God’s image.

• JansenismRelated: Jansenism stressed how deeply original sin impaired human moral capacity.

• PelagianismCompared with: Pelagianism rejects the inherited corruption or guilt that this doctrine attributes to humanity.

• Salvation in ChristianityBroader topic: This doctrine shapes explanations of why salvation is needed by all humanity.

• The Garden of Earthly DelightsRelated: The work’s movement from Eden to earthly desire and punishment has often been read through this doctrine.

• AugustinianismRelated: Augustinianism gives inherited sin a decisive role in explaining humanity’s need for grace.

• Fall of ManRelated: This doctrine gives the Fall its enduring account of human sinfulness.

• Infant baptismRelated: Some historical arguments for baptizing infants invoke their need for grace from sin.

• The Pilgrim’s ProgressRelated: Christian’s burden makes the problem of sin visible at the outset of his pilgrimage.

• Christian perfectionRelated: Different accounts of original sin shape what Christians believe perfection must overcome.

• Epistle to the RomansRelated: Romans 5 links Adam's trespass with sin and death entering human life.

• The FallRelated: Clamence’s language of universal guilt echoes religious accounts of shared human culpability.

• Garden of EdenRelated: Christian traditions interpret the Eden transgression as the origin of inherited human sin.

• Adam and EveRelated: Christian accounts connect Adam and Eve’s transgression to humanity’s shared sinful condition.

• Tree of the Knowledge of Good and EvilRelated: Christian traditions connect the fruit’s forbidden eating to humanity’s fallen condition.

• AdamRelated: Christian theology often treats Adam’s transgression as the origin of this condition.

• Jacobus ArminiusRelated: Arminius affirmed humanity's inability to turn to God without prior grace.

• Dark RomanticismRelated: Its account of inherited human weakness echoes the movement's suspicion of innate virtue.

• Mortal sinCompared with: It contrasts an inherited condition with a personally chosen grave offense.

• Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceCompared with: Blake’s account of innocence and experience does not simply reproduce this doctrine.

• Holy SonnetsRelated: Donne’s speakers confront sin as both inherited human frailty and personal guilt.

• Thomas TraherneRelated: Traherne’s account of childhood challenges gloomy assumptions about inherited human corruption.