The Transmission of Sin in the Seed: A Debate between Augustine of Hippo and Julian of Eclanum

The irreconcilable debate over the transmission of sin in the seed involved not only issues of personal satisfaction and the establishment and maintenance of orthodoxy, but also the model by which each man constructed his ideal notion of the nature of the Christion church: Julian believed that concu...

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Author:Carol Scheppard
Published: S.n., s.l., 1996
Volume:27
Pages:97-106
Periodical:Augustinian Studies
Number:2
Format:Article
Topic:- Biography > Relations and Sources > Pelagianism. Semi-Pelagianism > Julian of Eclanum
- Doctrine > From man to God > Evil. Sin > Original sin (concupiscentia) > Original Sin
Status:Needs Review
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Summary:The irreconcilable debate over the transmission of sin in the seed involved not only issues of personal satisfaction and the establishment and maintenance of orthodoxy, but also the model by which each man constructed his ideal notion of the nature of the Christion church: Julian believed that concupiscence was an original sense created by God as natural in humans before the Fall, while Augustine insisted thad it entered the world as a result of Adam's sin and is carried over through the generations.

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