TY - BOOK AU - Przyszychowska,Marta TI - We Were All in Adam: The Unity of Mankind in Adam in the Teaching of the Church Fathers SN - 9783110620580 PY - 2019///] CY - Warsaw, Berlin : PB - De Gruyter Open Poland, KW - Sin, Original KW - Theology, Doctrinal KW - Original Sin, Fathers of the Church, Patristics KW - RELIGION / Christian Church / History KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Abbreviations --; Foreword --; 1 Introduction --; 2 General Issues --; 3 Real Unity of Human Nature --; 4 Mankind in Adam's Loins --; 5 Unity in the Stoic Sense --; 6 Adam as a Representative of Mankind --; 7 Conclusion --; Indices; Open Access N2 - Contrary to a common conviction, original sin is one of the fundamental Patristic issues, because it is the starting point of Patristic anthropology and sets the stage for the need for salvation.The Church Fathers before Augustine did not used the term "original sin", but described its reality, having the greatest possible feeling for the mystical unity of mankind with its first ancestor. As regards the issue of the unity of human nature in Adam, the East and the West speak with one voice, which is first to be found in Irenaeus' works UR - https://doi.org/10.2478/9783110620580 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9783110620580.jpg ER -