If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I was reminded of this popular, too frequently ignored saying when I read this ambitious, thought-provoking book on original sin. Any salvation in Christ must be a salvation from something, a positive answering some negative. Contemporary theology and everyday spirituality, like much wider culture, tends to focus on the positive. Understandably so. But this has led to an unbalanced understanding of human nature and a lopsided theology. James Boyce, an Australian historian, takes us on a whistle-stop tour through Western thought and culture seen through the lens of changing understandings of original sin. He shows the myriad connections between the theological idea of a universal human predisposition to sin and many areas of human culture