Eastern Christianity teaches inherited mortality and vulnerability, not inherited guilt

Evidence

The Eastern Christian tradition — and this is the term scholars use — teaches propatorikon hamartēma: ancestral sin. The condition humans inherit from Adam is the loss of the original divine likeness, mortality, the orientation toward sin. But not personal guilt. The newborn is vulnerable. The newborn is not condemned. — , The Rod and the Child, 1621

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines propatorikon hamartēma (ancestral sin) against Augustinian original sin as inherited guilt.
• XREF: Connects to the Episode 9 discussion of Western vs Eastern original sin doctrine and its pedagogical consequences. — connects to: Eastern Orthodoxy rejected inherited guilt and taught only ancestral sin — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 717; Eastern Orthodox ancestral-sin doctrine does not theologically require corporal punishment — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2834; Eastern patristic pedagogy prescribed gentler, more specific correction than Western doctrine — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3326 (+2 more)

Related

• Eastern Orthodoxy rejected inherited guilt and taught only ancestral sin (similarity 0.93)
• Eastern Orthodox ancestral-sin doctrine does not theologically require corporal punishment (similarity 0.90)
• Eastern Orthodoxy sustained the no-provoke tradition that the West abandoned (similarity 0.84)
• Augustine’s original-sin doctrine suppressed the Pauline no-provoke framework in Western practice (similarity 0.83)
• Eastern patristic pedagogy prescribed gentler, more specific correction than Western doctrine (similarity 0.79)
• Christian pedagogical cruelty was doctrinally contingent, not theologically fixed (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Eastern Orthodoxy rejected inherited guilt and taught only ancestral sin #corroborates (0.90) — , The Rod and the Child, 717
• Eastern Orthodox ancestral-sin doctrine does not theologically require corporal punishment #expands (0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 2834
• Christian pedagogical cruelty was doctrinally contingent, not theologically fixed #expands (0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 2866
• Eastern patristic pedagogy prescribed gentler, more specific correction than Western doctrine #corroborates (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 3326
• Eastern Orthodoxy sustained the no-provoke tradition that the West abandoned #corroborates (0.60) — , The Rod and the Child, 2776