Shalom! a question about original sin
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:09 pm
Hello!
I'd like to understand what is the traditional Catholic teaching concerning original sin. I have read some of Saint Jerome's Against Jovinianus, and some more writings by the Church fathers, and from what I understood, they seem to be making a very strong connection between sexuality and original sin (and for that matter, also marrige, which came as a result of the sin of Adam and Eve, as Saint Jerome emphatically claims) Now, I know most theologians nowdays are very careful not to present original sin in that manner. (I gusse the very idea of original sin is so unpopular that they are afraid to make it sound even worse, this is my theory anyway) C.S Lewis also rejects it completely.
So i'd like to know what the Church REALLY teaches about this matter, did the church fathers had it right in stressing sexaulity as the reason behind original sin?
Thank you!
I'd like to understand what is the traditional Catholic teaching concerning original sin. I have read some of Saint Jerome's Against Jovinianus, and some more writings by the Church fathers, and from what I understood, they seem to be making a very strong connection between sexuality and original sin (and for that matter, also marrige, which came as a result of the sin of Adam and Eve, as Saint Jerome emphatically claims) Now, I know most theologians nowdays are very careful not to present original sin in that manner. (I gusse the very idea of original sin is so unpopular that they are afraid to make it sound even worse, this is my theory anyway) C.S Lewis also rejects it completely.
So i'd like to know what the Church REALLY teaches about this matter, did the church fathers had it right in stressing sexaulity as the reason behind original sin?
Thank you!