…and lawgiver. And consequently, their theology tends to be in legalistic terms. Now, the doctrine was developed slowly. We get, in St. Augustine, a continual stress on the appallingness of original sin and of the fact that the guilt is fully inherited by…

…up the Christian idea, he says, according to the Christian theory, which was worked out by the church fathers and especially by St. Augustine, the whole movement of history has the purpose of assuring the happiness of a small portion of the human race in…

…problem was thrashed out at the beginning of the fifth century. in the great controversy between Pelagius on the one hand and St. Augustine on the other. It's worth going into this a little bit because it seems to summarise in an older tradition these…

…And he insisted that all children were born innocent even as Adam had been born innocent. As opposed to the doctrine of St. Augustine who affirmed that children were born in original sin and unless baptized would certainly be damned and he even in very…