Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ancestral sin" in English language version.
The recurring theme of the great Greek tragedians [...] is ancestral sin [...]. Man is caught between the inescapable tribal duties and the dawning awareness of free, individual morality. And with this the great theme of Greek man is given; it was carried further by Greek philosophy – the struggle for assertion of human individuality [...].
No theologian, from the sixth century to the present day, would say that there is evil in created human nature; that would be a slight on a loving God.
But this man... is Adam, if the truth be told, the first-formed man... We, however, are all from him; and as we are from him, we have inherited his title [of sin] (Against Heresies 3:23:2 [inter A.D. 180-190]).
