Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin – N.P. Williams

In his 1924 Bampton Lectures N.P. Williams examined in some detail the development of the doctrines of the fall and of original sin. This public domain title was digitised from a copy kindly supplied by Book Aid.

Norman Powell Williams [1883-1943], The Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin. A Historical and Critical Study. Being Eight Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford, in the year 1924, on the foundation of the Rev. John Bampton, canon of Salisbury. Bampton Lectures,1924. London: Longmans, Green & Co., Ltd., 1927. Hbk. pp.571. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Extract from the Last Will and Textament of the Late Rev. John Bapmpton, Canon of Salisbury
• Preface
• Abbreviations

1. The Beginnings of Fall-Speculation
2. The Adam-Story and the ‘Evil-Imagination’
3. The Fall-Doctrine in the New Testament
4. The Fall-Doctrine in th Church of the First Four Centuries
5. The ‘Twice-Born’ Version of the Fall-Doctrine Fully Developed—Augustinianism
6. The Triumph and Decline of the Augustinian Doctrine
7. ‘Original Sin’ Re-Interpreted
8. The Ultimate ‘Fall’
   

• Indices

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