Biological Perspectives on Fall and Original Sin

Abstract. The paper consists of an argument that goes as follows. Symbols and their elaboration into myths constitute Homo sapiens's most primitive reading of the world and the relation of humans to that world. They are, in other words, primordial units of cultural information, emerging very ea...

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Main Author: Hefzer, Philip (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1993
In: Zygon
Year: 1993, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-101
Further subjects:B Augustine
B defect
B Finitude
B Gregory of Nyssa
B Falling
B Original Sin
B Myth and ritual
B genes and culture
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