THE ACCOUNT OF THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN, AS NARRATED IN THE
SECOND AND THIRD CHAPTERS OF GENESIS, IN ITS BEARING ON THE QUESTION
OF HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY, AND THE VALIDITY OF THE VARIOUS THEORIES
WHICH HAVE BEEN ERECTED ON IT, EXAMINED AND CONSIDERED.
Reasons for considering this subject, 140.—The total absence of any reference to what
is designated "the doctrine of the fall" in the remaining books of the Old Testament,
and in the teaching of our Lord, 141–143.—Also in seventeen out of the twenty-three
books which compose the remaining writings of the New Testament, 143-144.-The
references to the third chapter of Genesis in St. Paul's four remaining epistles examined
and considered, 144–149.- -The narrative in Genesis: its statements on the assump-
tion that it is intended to be a narrative of actual occurrences, 149–153.- -The
inferences which, on this assumption, may be deduced from it, 153-157.—Its
silences, 157-159.—The reasons which have induced eminent theologians in all ages
of the Church to view the narrative as allegorical, 159-165.-General conclusions,
165-166.