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WOF 386: Christianity, History, and the Modern Age w/ Tom Holland

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

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The Politics of Original Sin

The 60s will come to be seen by future historians as a decade as convulsive for what we might call Christendom as the 1520s were. The repudiation of the doctrine of original sin was actually the single most dramatic kind of theological intervention of the 60s. We live in a Pelagian age now, so Pelagius is the great kind of opponent for Gustin who became the... I guess Augustine is the figure who for Catholic and Protestant theologians alike stands behind them when they've talked about it.

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