Editing Western Christianity (section)

=== Original sin ===
[[Original sin]], also called [[ancestral sin]],<ref name="Golitzin1995">{{cite book |last=Golitzin |first=Alexander |title=On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SUjKOoQsCyUC&pg=PA119 |year=1995 |publisher=St Vladimir's Seminary Press |isbn=978-0-88141-144-7 |pages=119– |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref name="Tate2005">{{cite book |last=Tate |first=Adam L. |title=Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789–1861: Liberty, Tradition, and the Good Society |url=https://archive.org/details/conservatismsout00tate_0/page/190 |year=2005 |publisher=[[University of Missouri Press]] |isbn=978-0-8262-1567-3 |page=190}}</ref><ref name="Bartolo-Abela2011">{{cite book |last=Bartolo-Abela |first=Marcelle |title=God's Gift to Humanity: The Relationship Between Phinehas and Consecration to God the Father |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ePZFD9BOB4C&pg=PA32|year=2011 |publisher=Apostolate-The Divine Heart |isbn=978-0-9833480-1-6 |pages=32– |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref name="Hassan2012">{{cite book |last=Hassan |first=Ann |title=Annotations to Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech! |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0e9guRLMVEC&pg=PA62 |date=2012 |publisher=punctum |isbn=978-1-4681-2984-7 |pages=62– |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> is a [[Christianity|Christian]] belief in a [[state of sin]] in which humanity has existed since the [[fall of man]], stemming from [[Adam and Eve]]'s rebellion in the [[Garden of Eden]], namely the sin of disobedience in consuming the [[forbidden fruit]] from the [[tree of the knowledge of good and evil]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Frank Leslie|author-link=Frank Leslie Cross|title=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church|url=https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary00cros/page/994/mode/2up/|year=1966|publisher=Oxford University Press|ol=5382229M|p=994}}</ref> Theologians have characterized this condition in many ways, seeing it as ranging from something as insignificant as a slight deficiency, or a tendency toward sin yet without [[Collective accountability|collective guilt]], referred to as a "sin nature", to something as drastic as [[total depravity]] or automatic guilt of all humans through collective guilt.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brodd |first=Jeffrey |title=World Religions |publisher=[[Saint Mary's Press]] |year=2003 |location=Winona, MN |isbn=978-0-88489-725-5}}{{page needed|date=May 2025}}</ref>