My book Original Sin doesn't have an index, but I think it should. So my student Aubrey Senyard created this one. Thanks, Aubrey!


Aboab da Fonseca, Rabbi Isaac: 98-101, 103, 105-106

Achebe, Chinua: xii

Acts of the Apostles: 33, 50

Adam: x, xi, xii, xiii, 30-32, 43, 46, 52, 55, 61-62, 75, 89-92, 102-103, 107, 115, 127, 132, 140, 157, 200, 202n, 206-207, 210, 216n, 218, 232, 243, 260; Fallen, 45; Paradise Lost, 38, 40-41, 44-46, 89-91; Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 46; Secrets of Enoch, 43; sin of, xii, xiii, 31-32, 43n, 55n, 64, 66, 82, 90, 102, 127, 136, 206, 243; “The Wall”, 40

Agassiz, Louis: 198-205, 207, 209

Ajax: 1, 4, 190

Alighieri, Dante: Divine Comedy, 48, 250

All Soul’s Day: 70-77, 79, 134

Anglican Church see Church of England

Anselm, St. (of Canterbury): 73

Arnauld, Antoine: 109-111, 113, 116

Athena: 1-2; temple of, 1-3

Atkinson, Clarissa W.: 143n

Auden, W.H.: 69, 271

Auerbach, Erich: 7

Augustine of Hippo: xii, xiii, 23-33, 35,47-51, 53-64, 81, 88, 93, 95-96, 107, 109-110, 123, 128, 135, 137, 139, 143, 152, 212-213, 216, 223, 226-227, 242, 244, 245n, 259, 261, 267; The City of God, 61; Confessions, 26, 28, 145; doctrine of Baptism, 47, 54-55, 62-65; doctrine of original sin, xiii, 30-33, 47-48, 50-54, 58-59, 102, 104-107, 109-110, 112,125, 128-129, 132-133, 135, 140, 145, 150, 190, 213, 216n, 261, 267, 269

Baptism: 47, 49-50, 54-55, 62-66, 103, 106

Barker, John: 136

Barleus, Caspar: 98

Bateson, William: 247

Beecher, Lyman: 192-193, 202

Bentley, Eric: x

Benzaquen, Adriana S.: Encounters with Wild Children, 165n

Bernanos, George: x

Brainerd, David: 164-166

Brown, Peter: 29, 53-54, 71

Bunyan, John: 119-126, 128; Pilgrim’s Progress 123-124, 126

Burke, Edmund: 231-233

Bywater, Michael: 252

Calvin, John see Calvinism

Calvinism: 19, 98, 101-105, 123, 128, 135-136, 194, 213

Calvinists see Calvinism

Cassirer, Ernst: 150

Catholic Church (Roman): 49, 54, 63, 68-69, 106, 109-110, 112, 114n, 134, 143, 166-168, 214, 239-243

Catholicism, see Catholic Church

Cervantes, Miguel de: 162

Chagnon, Napoleon: xvi

Chambers, Whittaker: 228-230, 234-235, 238; Witness, 228-230

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith: x, xv, 270

Children: xii-xv, 140-143, 149, 175-176; baptism of, 47, 50, 55, 62-65; education of, 143- 147, 149, 151-157, 163, 165-166, 168

Church of England: 102, 120, 124-125, 130, 134, 136, 237-238

Christos Pantocrator: 78-79

Cohon, Samuel: 103

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: 169-174, 188, 190; The Fall of Robespierre, 172-173

Confucius: 11-13, 108; Analects, 11-13;

Cranston, Maurice: 147, 154-155

Cyprian of Carthage: 44

Damien, Peter: 70

Darwin, Charles: 258; On the Origin of Species, 245-246

David (king of Israel): 6-10, 34-36

Dawkins, Richard: 268-269

Defoe, Daniel: Political History of the Devil, 90-91

Deuteronomy, Book of: 97

Dodds, E. R.: 5

Dolfuss, Englebert: 67-69

Domning, Daryl: Original Selfishness, 260-261

Donatists: 48-49, 56

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: 216-217; Crime and Punishment, 191

Dutch Calvinism see Calvinism

Dryden, John:160

Ecclesiastes, Book of: 102

Eden, Garden of: x, 37, 38, 157, 189; Fallen, 44; in Genesis, 37-38; Paradise Lost, 38-39; “The Wall”, 40;

Education of children see children

Edwards, Jonathan: ix 135-143, 146, 149, 164, 166, 190, 194, 262

Emmerich, Anne Catherine: 240-242

Enlightenment: 135-136, 144, 150, 258

Erasmus: 107, 112, Praise of Folly, 107

Eve: x, xi, 45, 61, 90-92, 107, 140, 200, 202n, 216n, 218, 232, 260; in Fallen 45; in Paradise Lost 38, 40-46, 89-91; in Perelandra, 41-42, 44; in “The Wall”, 40; in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 45-46; Secrets of Enoch, 43

Everyman: 82, 92

Ezekiel, Book of: 141-142

Fall, The: 40, 43n, 47, 90, 150n, 218, 237, 260; Genesis account of, 37-38, 40, 90, 260; in Paradise Lost, 40

Feast of All Soul’s see All Soul’s Day

Finney, Charles: ix, 193-197, 209

Fodor, Jerry: 258

Fowler, Edward: 124-126

Franco, Zeno: 255-256

Franklin, Benjamin: 131-132, 134-135, 160n

Freud, Sigmund: 33, 55n, 95, 257, 258n

Galatians, Letter to the: 25, 30, 62n

Galton, Francis: 248

Genesis, Book of: xii-xiv, 37-38, 40, 42, 45, 90, 102, 205, 207-208, 260

Genovese, Eugene: 205

Goldstein, Rebecca: 101

Graves, Robert: 3

Gray, John: 257

Great Awakening: 129-147

Greenblatt, Stephen: Hamlet in Purgatory, 75

Harry Potter: 87n

Hayward, L.H.: 75

Hebrews, Letter to the: 115

Hellboy: 85-88, 93

Hellwig, Monika: Original Selfishness, 260-262

Hill, Christopher: 123

Himmelfarb, Gertrude: The Roads to Modernity, 136, 230

Hitler, Adolf: xvii, 67-69

Hobbes, Thomas: Leviathan, 151

Homer: Odyssey, 262

Horace: 162

Howe, Irving: 229n

“Hundred Families”: 2-3

Infants see Children

Isaiah, Book of: 63, 102

James, Saint: 48

James, William: Varieties of Religious Experience, 14, 217-218

Jansen, Cornelius: 109-113, 116, 128, 166

Jansenists see Jansen, Cornelius

Jarrell, Randall: xvi

Jeremiah, Book of: 103

Jesuit order: 11n, 109, 113-116, 128, 142-143n, 165-166, 197

Jesus Christ: ix, 15, 19-20, 25, 30-31, 34-35, 45, 50-52, 55, 65, 78, 88, 94, 103-104, 111, 118, 121-124, 130-131, 134, 142, 206, 226, 230, 244

Joad, C.E. M.: Guide to Modern Wickedness, 237-238

John, First Letter of: 88

John, Gospel of: 51

Johnson, Robert: 265

Johnson, Samuel: 44, 129, 144n

Judaism: 33, 97-106, 108, 142, 202, 209-210

Julian of Eclanum: 56-63, 86, 143, 213

Justice, Donald: “The Wall”, 39-40

Kabbalah: 99-101, 105

Kafka, Franz: 79

Kant, Immanuel: 150, 152

Keegan, John: 219

Kierkegaard, Søren: 114n

Kirk, Russell: The Conservative Mind, 231

Knowles, David: 73

Laing, R. D.: The Divided Self, 95-96, 268

Lanyer, Amelia: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 45-46

Larkin, Philip: “MCMXIV”, 219

Latitudinarianism: 124-125, 128, 130, 136, 185

Law, William: 143-146

Lecky, W. E. H. : 63

Lemaitre, Jules: 148

Lewis, C. S.: 81-82, 220, 229n, 234, 237-238 ; Perelandra 41-44

Lincoln, Abraham: 48n, 192

Locrians: 2-4, 11, 31-32, 190

Luke, Gospel of: 33-34

Luther, Martin: 104n

Maine, David: Fallen, 44-45

Manichaenism: 28, 60

Marlowe, Christopher: Doctor Faustus, 93-95

Marsden, George: 137, 164

Martin of Tours, Saint: 88-89, 94

Marvell, Andrew: “A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body”, 62n

Mary (Mother of Jesus): 15-16; immaculate conception of, 239-244, 260

Matthew, Gospel of: 88

Maximos the Confessor: 54

Menasseh ben Israel: 98-99, 108, 118; De Creatione Problemata, 98

Mencius: 12-13, 53

Mendel, Gregor: 243-248

Methodists: 130

Meyendorff, John: 55

Milgram, Stanley: 254-255

Milton, John: 252, 270; Paradise Lost 38-41, 44-46, 89-91, 127, 170, 191, 270

Mirk, John: 75

Montaigne, Michel de: ‘On Cannibals’, 160-161, 166-167

More, Thomas : 161

Morteira, Rabbi Saul Levi: 98-100, 105

Nash, George: 230

Nayler, James: 120-122

Nazis: 67-69, 77

New Harmony (Robert Owen): 185-188, 193, 267

Newman, John Henry: 216n

Niebuhr, Reinhold: 69, 233-237; The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, 234-235; Moral Man and Immoral Society, 235-236

Nisbet, Robert: History of the Idea of Progress, 215n, 219

“Noble Savage”: 159-166, 168-169, 221, 259

Nott, Josiah Clarke: 204-205, 207

Numbers, Book of: 141

Odilo of Cluny, Abbot: 70-73, 77, 108

O’Donnell James: 58, 60n

Oedipus: xi, xii

Origen of Alexandria: 241-242

Original sin: doctrine of, ix-xvii, 54-55, 58, 70, 75-77, 83, 90-91, 106-108, 114-115, 117, 123, 128, 132-133, 135, 149-150, 159, 163-165, 168, 190, 195-197, 200-201, 206, 209, 213-214, 216, 227, 230-232, 234, 236, 238, 243-244, 258, 260-262; Augustinian doctrine of, 33, 47-48, 50-54, 58-66, 104-107, 109-110, 112, 125, 128-129, 132-133, 135,140, 145, 150, 190, 213, 216n, 261, 267, 269; in Judaism, 102-106; Pauline doctrine of, 33, 47-48, 62n, 103, 260-261; Pelagian doctrine of, 50-54, 58, 114-115, 124, 128, 140, 197, 244

Orta, Andrew: 74

Orthodox church (Eastern): 54-55n, 78-79, 221-224, 267

Owen, Robert: 173-190, 193, 267; A New View of Society, 178-184

Pagden, Anthony: The Fall of Natural Man, 166

Pagels, Elaine: 32

Pascal, Blaise: x, xvii, 110-118, 142, 150 Provincial Letters, 112-113; Pensées, 116-117, 150-151, 166, 197

Paul, Saint: xii, 28-36, 47-48, 62n, 88, 96, 103, 104n, 106, 140, 208, 212, 242, 256, 259-262, 267; Letter to the Galatians, 25, 30, 62n; Letter to the Philippians, 88; Letter to the Romans, xii, 28-31,35, 47, 106

Pelagius: 50-59, 63, 86, 109, 114-115, 124, 128, 139, 197, 244

Philippians, Letter to the: 88

Pinker, Stephen: xvii, 256-260, 268-269; The Blank Slate, 256-260

Pius XI, Pope: 239-243

Plato: Laws, 4-6, 90, 210

Polybius: 2

Poole, Tom: 170-171

Porter, Roy: 144

Presbyterian Church: 136, 192-195, 216n

Priestly, Joseph: 171-172, 189

Proverbs, Book of: 102

Prudentius: 95; Psychomachia, 81-82, 91

Psalms, Book of: 9-10, 35-36

Quakers: 120-124, 128

Rapp, Johan Georg: 185

Revelation, Book of: 89

Rigoleuc, Jean: 166-168

Robbins, Joel: 17-20

Romans, Letter to the: xii-xiii, 28-31, 35, 47, 104n, 106, 260

Rorty, Richard: xvi

Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen: 68-72, 77, 105, 134, 200, 220; Out of Revolution 69, 220

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: xv-xvi, 53, 147-159, 163, 165, 170, 226, 259, 262, 269; Emile 147, 149-157; First Discourse 147-148; Julie, 149 ; Second Discourse 148

Samuel, First Book of: 141

Satan: 232; in Paradise Lost, 38, 41-42, 88-91, 170, 191, 270

Schama, Simon: 104

Shakespeare, William: 127-128, 161-162, 271; Hamlet 127 ; The Merchant of Venice, 209; Much Ado About Nothing, 271; Othello, 209; The Tempest 127-128

Shipherd, John Jay: 193

Shippey, T. A.: 92-93

Sidney, Sir Phillip: 107, 145

Silone, Ignazio: The God that Failed, 227-228

Slavery: 189-193, 197, 203-209

Smith, Adam: 235-236

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: xvii; The Gulag Archipelago, 224, 266

Southey, Robert :170-174, 184, 189-190; The Fall of Robespierre, 172-173

Spinoza, Baruch: 118n

St. Joseph’s Workshop: 14

Stone, Lawrence: 64

Sunstein, Carl: 253-254

Taylor, John, of Norwich: ix, xiv, 136-140, 146, 262

Thomas, Keith: 218

Thornwell, James Henry: 207, 209

Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Lord of the Rings, 43n, 92-93

Traherne, Thomas:163

Uglow, Jenny: 156; The Lunar Men, 156-157

Urapmin (Papua New Guinea): 17-20, 107

Ussher, James: 43

Vasquez: 113, 115

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet): 148, 150, 152

Wallace, Alfred Russel: 215

Warfield, Benjamin: 52, 216n

Warren, Josiah: 185, 188

Watts, Michael: 128

Webster, Richard: 257

Wesley, John: x, xv, 129-130, 134, 136-137, 140, 143, 145-147, 196, 257

West, Rebecca: 44, 211-213, 216; Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, 220-227, 229n, 233-234, 237, 260, 267

Whitefield, George: 76, 129-136

Wilde, Oscar: Picture of Dorian Gray, x

Williams, N. P: 102

Wilson, Edmund: To the Finland Station, 179-180

Xun Zi: 13-14, 47

Yanomamo people: xvi

Zhou, Dynasty of: 11, 13

Zimbardo, Philip: The Lucifer Effect 251-256, 259, 266

Zohar: 64n

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