Fission theories of Original Guilt
One reading of the Doctrine of Original Sin has it that we are guilty of a sin committed by Adam, thousands of years ago. Fission theorists account for this by saying that Adam fissioned after he sinned and that each of us is one of his ‘fission successors’. This paper recaps the current discussion...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 92, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-30 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Original sin
/ Schöpferkraft Gottes
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBE Anthropology VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Miracles
B Perdurantism B temporal parts B Original Guilt B Original Sin B Fission |
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| Summary: | One reading of the Doctrine of Original Sin has it that we are guilty of a sin committed by Adam, thousands of years ago. Fission theorists account for this by saying that Adam fissioned after he sinned and that each of us is one of his ‘fission successors’. This paper recaps the current discussion in the literature about this theory, arguing that the proposed version does not work for reasons already raised by Rea and Hudson. I then introduce a new version of fission theory that avoids the Rea-Hudson objection. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-021-09823-w |
