De Conceptu Virginali et de Originali Peccato
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~13,300 words · 63 passages
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What it is about
What original sin exactly is, given that a newborn has done nothing.
Context and history
Anselm defines sin as an absence — the lack of the justice owed — rather than a stain that is passed on. That negative definition is what makes the text philosophically interesting well beyond the theology prompting it.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
12. Quod male Adae nulla rectitudine ad ilium hominem transeant. /138/ 13. Quod et si non esset deus sed purus homo, necesse tamen esset illum talem esse, qualis primus homo factus est. 14. Quod propositae rationi non refragetur quod scriptum est hominem de immundo semine et in iniquitatibus conceptum, etiamsi de aliquibus proprie dictum sit. 15. Quomodo massa peccatrix non sit tota peccatrix. 16. Cur Iohannes et alii qui similiter concepti sunt per miraculum, non sint per se liberi a peccato. 17. Cur deus incarnatus sit, cum de Adam posses facere homines non-deos sine peccato tot quot sufficerent. 18. Quod de uirgine iusta deus conceptus sit non necessitate, quasi de peccatrice non posset, sed quia sic decebat. 19. Quomodo ista ratio et altera alibi data concordant et differant. 20. Quod natus de uirgine pro originali peccato habuit originalem iustitiam. 21. Quare non potuit habere personal
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