Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. The two-week OxTalks freeze period starts on Monday 2nd March. During this time, there will be no facility to publish or edit events. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period. Once Oxford Events launches, you will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Belief in the Fall is something shared by all Christians. Original sin is a Western coinage; the nearest Orthodox equivalent is ‘ancestral sin’ (τὸ προπατερικὸν ἁμάρτημα). What is the difference? Original sin is thought of, since Augustine, as some kind of inherited taint; ancestral sin is rather recognition that the damaged state of the world and society cannot be simply put down to our personal sins — we live in a world already damaged by the accumulated sin of the past.
