📚 Original Sin

Augustine’s invention and its long argument: inherited guilt, total depravity, and the reactions.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject original sin in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Human nature in its four-fold state of primitive integrity, entire depravation, begun recovery, and consummate happiness or misery	Thomas Boston	1729	67
	Cur Deus homo	Anselm of Canterbury	1474	32
	Begrebet angest	Søren Kierkegaard	1844	28
	De origine mali	King, William	1702	18
	The true Scripture-doctrine of original sin stated and defended	Niles, Samuel	1757	14
	The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended	Jonathan Edwards	1758	12
	The concept of anxiety	Søren Kierkegaard	1844	12
	An appeal to matter of fact and common sense	Rev. John Fletcher	1772	10
	Miscellanées bibliques	Joseph Coppens	1951	10
	The Scripture-doctrine of original sin, stated and defended	Peter Clark	1758	9
	Of original sin	William Delaune	1713	6
	A winter evening's conversation upon the doctrine of original sin	Samuel Webster	1757	6
	Brief remarks on the state of man and his redemption by Jesus Christ	George Stacey	1812	6
	The doctrine of original sin	John Wesley	1756	5
	De personali et originali peccato	Louis Billot	1910	5
	Macht der zonde	Piet J. A. M. Schoonenberg	1965	5
	Creation regained	Albert M. Wolters	1985	5
	A sermon on original sin	John Wesley	1759	4
	The Triangle	Samuel Whelpley	1816	4
	A reply to a layman, jun., author of a pamphlet entitled A humble attempt to refute A refutation	Israel Putnam	1818	4
	The humanity of the Saviour	Harry Johnson	1962	4
	Christ and original sin	Peter De Rosa	1967	4
	A winter evening's conversation upon the doctrine of the original sin	Samuel Webster	1757	3
	The Great Christian doctrine of original sin defended, evidences of its truth produced, and arguments to the contrary answered	Jonathan Edwards	1758	3
	Remarks on a late pamphlet, intitled, "The opinion of one that has perused the Summer-morning's conversation, concerning the doctrine of original sin," &c	Peter Clark	1758	3
	Common sense	By-stander.	1772	3
	Review of Taylor and Harvey on human depravity	Noah Porter	1829	3
	Representation Of The Heart Of Man In Its Depraved State By Nature	Peter D. Myers	1837	3
	The doctrine of original sin	George Payne	1845	3
	De debito peccati originalis in B. Virgine Maria	Carolus Balić	1941	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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