Anselm of Canterbury's treatise on original sin and its transmission — arguing that Christ, born of a virgin, could be free from original sin because he was not conceived through the union of wills infected by sin.
Develops Anselm's account of original sin as the privation of original justice — the absence of the justice that should be present — and explains how Christ avoids this privation.
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