The bibliography features elaborations of the doctrine of sin by Augustine, Calvin, and Barth, followed by the treatments of two more recent Reformed theologians, John Leith and Cornelius Plantinga. The supplementary readings discuss sin in light of its anthropological and cultural significance (Emil Brunner and Reinhold Niebuhr) and in the literary imaginations of two authors shaped by the Reformed tradition (Herman Melville and John Milton).
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Topic 40: THE DOCTRINE OF SIN
Seminar Readings
Augustine. Confessions. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Henry Chadwick. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xxviii + 311 pp. For an alternative translation, see Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2002. 320 pp.
Calvin, John. [The Doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin]. In Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion, translated from the 1559 Latin ed. by Ford Lewis Battles, Book II, Chapter 1–3 (vol. 1, pp. 241–309). Library of Christian Classics, ed. John T. McNeill, vol. 21. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960.
Barth, Karl. §60 “The Pride and Fall of Man.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 1, pp. 358–513. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1962. Leith, John H. “The Human Creature as Sinner.” In Basic Christian Doctrine, Chapter 7, pp.105–111. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1993.
Plantinga, Cornelius, Jr. Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996, 216 pp.
Supplementary Readings
Brunner, Emil. Man in Revolt: A Christian Anthropology. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2002. 570 pp.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. New York. W.W. Norton & Company. Third Edition. Hershel Parker Editor. 736 pp.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost: A Poem in 12 Books,7th ed. London: Printed for J. Beecroft, 1770. Reprint. New York. W.W. Norton & Company. Second Edition. Gordon Teskey Editor. 624 pp.
Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Nature and Destiny of Man. 2 vols. Preface for the Scribner Library Edition. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1964. xiii + 305 pp., xv + 328 pp.
———. Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics. New Preface. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1960. xxvii + 284 pp.