Original Sin and Time

By: AndrÃ© Barbera

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Hardcover | 12 December 2024

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The Christian doctrine of original sin, properly understood, uniquely expresses the human condition. People lament their sins and mistakes, although they assume guilt only for the former. Are they also responsible for their mistakes, perhaps even for all that they deem unpleasant or catastrophic in the world--earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and the cruelty of others? Andre Barbera explores the latter possibility, arguing that a proper understanding of original sin renders each and every person guilty for all misery and woe.

Two entirely common experiences provide clues for the argument that original sin and time are the same thing. The first is waiting, pure and simple. Everyone waits, every day. The second experience is people's vain attempt to hold together one another in thought, word, and image. This practice is especially conscious when the person whom someone attempts to hold together has died. ""Time heals all"" is a euphemism for ""Sin kills love.""

The argument regarding original sin and time pertains directly to the questions of predestination, individual freedom, divine foreknowledge, and universal salvation. By extension, it could be applied to the discussion regarding pronouns and gender identification and to the rhetoric surrounding abortion.

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“From the unremarkable premises that ‘God is all good’ and ‘God exists outside time,’ Andre Barbera takes us to the much more provocative conclusion that ‘Time is sin.’ Along the way, he traces the Biblical and patristic origins of these ideas, bringing in other dialogue partners (e.g., Dostoevsky, Dante, Luther, Kierkegaard) to elaborate the implications. This is a thoughtful and detailed study.”
—Kim Paffenroth, series editor, Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation

“This is a book of enormous ambition: it depicts sin and time as identical, and shows how, through the lens of that identity, everything (yes, everything) finds its proper place. Barbera writes with elegance, passion, learning, and an unusually strong sense of what argument can do. He provides something now rare: genuine and deep intellectual stimulus.”
—Paul J. Griffiths, author of Israel: A Christian Grammar and Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar.

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