Kathryn Paige Harden’s ‘Original Sin’ tackles vice, blame and forgiveness

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The 18th-century firebrand American preacher Jonathan Edwards, alarm clock in chief of the Great Awakening, once characterized original sin as “the innate sinful depravity of the heart”— hereditary, biological, inescapable, and worthy of damnation.

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