The Doctrine of the Fall in the Early Church

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Primary Sources

	Ambrose, Hexameron, Paradise, Cain and Abel, J.J. Savage, trans. The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 42. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1961. Hbk. 0813200423. pp.287-356.
	John H. Taylor, translator, St Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, Johannes Quasten, Walter J. Burghardt & Thomas C. Lawler, eds. Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation, No. 41. New York: Newman Press, 1983. ISBN: 0809103265. pp.296..
	John H. Taylor, translator, St Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, Johannes Quasten, Walter J. Burghardt & Thomas C. Lawler, eds. Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation, No. 42. New York: Newman Press, 1983. ISBN: 0809103273. pp.360.
	Augustine, On the Rebuke and Grace. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1st series, Vol. 5. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1893. pp.471-491.
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Secondary Sources

	J. Robert Wright, "The Authority of Chalcedon for Anglicans," G.R. Evans, ed., Christian Authority: Essays in Honour of Henry Chadwick. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Hbk. ISBN: 0198266839. pp.59-75.
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	J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines, revised. HarperCollins. Pbk. ISBN: 006064334X. pp.500. Chs. 7 & 13.
	Jack P. Lewis, "The woman's seed (Gen 3:15)," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 34.3 (Sept. 1991): 299-319. pdf
	Jonathan Morgan, "The Soul’s Forgetfulness of God in Athanasius' Doctrine of the Fall," St Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 60.4 (2016): 473-488.
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	Panayiotis Papageorgiou, "Chrysostom and Augustine on the Sin of Adam and Its Consequences," St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 39.4 (1995): 361-378.
	F.R. Tennant, The Sources of the Doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin. New York: Shocken Books, 1968. Hbk. ISBN: 0805232451.
	Jeff Vogel, "The Haste of Sin, the Slowness of Salvation: An Interpretation of Irenaeus on the Fall and Redemption," Anglican Theological Review 89.3 (2007): 443-459. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Norman P. Williams, The Ideas of the Fall and of Original Sin. London: Longmans Green, 1927. Reprint: Ams Press, 1980. Hbk. ISBN: 0404184391.

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