We can have a sense that when we try to do right by one another, we aren't merely striving against ourselves. The feeling is that we are struggling against some

Commentators have long argued about whether to read Paul's personification of Sin in Romans literally or figuratively. Matthew Croasmun suggests both that the c

Discusses Christian-based fears surrounding sin, death, and the soul's immortality, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries

Explores the origins, development and interpretations¿past and present¿of this conflicting yet fundamental Christian doctrine .

The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex