Reinhold Niebuhr once wrote that the doctrine of original sin is “the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith.” The evidence of ingrained sinfulness, he thought, is apparent ...

Whatever became of sin, asked Dr. Karl Menninger in the title of a book written about twenty-five years ago that reflected on the lack of an awareness of the dynamic of human sin. It seems that sin ...

Alan Jacobs on Adam’s curse. It’s a funny thing when an idea becomes at once singularly despised and surprisingly fascinating, simultaneously passé and sexy. Take the doctrine of original sin—that ...

The statistics attached to the Interim Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have confirmed what many people suspected – that while child abuse has been ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. The philosopher Michael Ruse has written, "With respect to the main claims of Christianity … I am pretty atheistic …. I ...