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Be Ye Therefore Perfect or The Ineradicability of Sin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Jonathan Harrison
Jonathan Harrison
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University of Nottingham
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The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die in extreme agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, shall be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should will one venial untruth, or should steal one poor farthing without excuse (John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua)

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Religious Studies , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 1985, pp. 1 - 19
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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page 1 note 1 The reader is referred to ‘Ethical consistency’, in Problems of the Self, by Williams, Bernard (C.U.P. 1973).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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