the early history of an idea Fredriksen, Paula. creator text bibliography Electronic books. Electronic books. nju 2012 monographic eng 1 online resource (vii, 209 pages) Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, the author, a historian of religion tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity. Long before Christianity, of course, cultures had articulated the idea that human wrongdoing violated relations with the divine. But this book tells how, in the fevered atmosphere of the four centuries between Jesus and Augustine, singular new Christian ideas about sin emerged in rapid and vigorous variety, including the momentous shift from the belief that sin is something one does to something that one is born into. As the original defining circumstances of their movement quickly collapsed, early Christians were left to debate the causes, manifestations, and remedies of sin. This is an account of the early history of an idea that has centrally shaped Christianity and left a deep impression on the secular world as well. God, blood, and the Temple: Jesus and Paul on sin -- Flesh and the devil: sin in the second century -- A rivalry of genius: sin and its consequences in Origen and Augustine. Paula Fredriksen. Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191) and index. Sin Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600 RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics BT715 .F74 2012eb 241/.309015 REL033000 REL067070 REL028000 REL051000 Fredriksen, Paula. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011053128 (OCoLC)761850987 9781400841592 1400841593 22573/cttmchh JSTOR 011AF478-A5B4-4D3E-B47F-DEED54F552C0 OverDrive, Inc. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=444115 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=444115 N$T 120521 20200709055507.0 ocn794004267 eng