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BORN BAD
Original Sin and the Making of the Western World
For fans of Christopher Hitchens Alain de Botton and Richard Dawkins - a big thinker on one of the most fundamental ideas in the history of Western thought.
For fans of Christopher Hitchens Alain de Botton and Richard Dawkins - a big thinker on one of the most fundamental ideas in the history of Western thought.
According to original sin, humans are "born bad" and only God's grace can bring salvation. Although Christianity is on the wane, Boyce explores how these religious ideas of morality still underpin our modern secular society, though we are often not aware of their origins. If today the specific doctrine has all but disappeared (even from the churches), what remains is the distinctive discontent of Western people the feelings of guilt and inadequacy associated not with doing wrong, but with being wrong.
"Original sin is the Western world's creation story," James Boyce writes, in this fascinating sweeping history of a dark and controversial idea.
James Boyce is the author of Van Diemen's Land: A History (2008) and 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia (2011). The former won the Tasmania Book Prize and the Colin Roderick Award and was shortlisted for the NSW, Victorian and Queensland premiers' literary awards, as well as the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Tim Flannery described it as "a brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people." 1835 won the Age Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Western Australian Premier's Book Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. The Sunday Age described it as "a first-class piece of historical writing."
According to original sin, humans are "born bad" and only God's grace can bring salvation. Although Christianity is on the wane, Boyce explores how these religious ideas of morality still underpin our modern secular society, though we are often not aware of their origins. If today the specific doctrine has all but disappeared (even from the churches), what remains is the distinctive discontent of Western people the feelings of guilt and inadequacy associated not with doing wrong, but with being wrong.
"Original sin is the Western world's creation story," James Boyce writes, in this fascinating sweeping history of a dark and controversial idea.
James Boyce is the author of Van Diemen's Land: A History (2008) and 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia (2011). The former won the Tasmania Book Prize and the Colin Roderick Award and was shortlisted for the NSW, Victorian and Queensland premiers' literary awards, as well as the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Tim Flannery described it as "a brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people." 1835 won the Age Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Western Australian Premier's Book Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. The Sunday Age described it as "a first-class piece of historical writing."
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Published 2014-08-01 by Black, Inc. |