text: (Part 6)
  
  You also mentioned Baptism and the Immaculate Conception as threatened by modern science. I agree that baptism understood as washing away an indelible stain inherited from Adam and Eve via sexual intercourse, as postulated by Augustine, makes no sense whatsoever given the development of the doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin I am suggesting. But that is not the only understanding of Baptism we have inherited. The East, in particular, has preserved other understandings, above all our incorporation into the new life introduced into the cosmos by the Christ Event. (Recall, that the East was not straddled with Augustine and his conception of Original Sin, and yet they prize Baptism. Obviously, therefore, our Tradition contains alternative conception of Baptism that the West has tended to down play.)
  
  As for the Immaculate Conception, at the present time I am at a complete loss to make any sense of this particular doctrine.
  
  May I ask why you dropped Jesuitical?
  
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