Word: sinned
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...would suggest that the real reason that Father Herbert Haag cannot accept the doctrine of original sin is to be traced to his unmarried state. Like Pelagius (another single theologian), he has not had the advantage of seeing human nature close up in the form of growing children. If he had, he would undoubtedly know that children must be taught to do right, not to do wrong. Delightful as they are, they have an inborn teacher (original sin inherited from Adam) that instructs them most effectively...
...city of Baltimore." Investigations of organized crime in the city have uncovered a $10 million-a-year numbers empire operating out of the Block and linked several club owners to nationwide betting syndicates. These revelations have disillusioned many Baltimoreans who had previously opposed any interference with the sin strip...
What, then, remains of the traditional doctrine? "The term original sin," University of Chicago Theologian Joseph Sittler says, "remains as a kind of pail which we've drained of the old literal statements and refilled with quite new interpretations. The doctrine meant to point to the gravity, the universality, and the demonic results of evil. And the language was a way of stating this. But we no longer buy the old notion of biological transmission or try to have a system of inheritance. The notion of 'original' means profound-trans-individual, way back and deep down...
Innate Indifference. Original sin, in contemporary interpretations, is thus seen not as a stigma inherited from Adam but as a statement of the human condition-an idea that most Catholic revisionists defend as being well within the spirit of church teaching. Jesuit Henri Rondet, for example, says that original sin is "the ensemble of personal sin of men of all times." Dutch Theologian Ansfried Hulsbosch suggests that man is born to seek perfection; in so far as he fails to grow toward this spiritual goal, he is both "originally" and personally sinful. Englebert Gutwenger of Innsbruck University conceives of original...
What original sin comes down to, suggests Vanderbilt Theologian Ray Hart, "is that you can count on man to be a bastard." In a century that has so far produced Hiroshima, Buchenwald and Biafra, this is an insight that is hard to ignore. Søren Kierkegaard described original sin as a sense of dread; for most of mankind, it is still an uncomfortably familiar feeling...