Basically, orthodox Christianity rejected gnostic thought.
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN AND THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE
But it is hard to reconcile the doctrine of original sin with evolutionary theory.
As a result, the French Jesuit paleontologist and religious writer Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) set aside the doctrine of original sin in his posthumously published visionary book THE HUMAN PHENOMENON, translated by Sarah Appleton-Weber (Sussex Academic Press, 1999; an earlier English translation was published in 1959 as THE PHENOMENON OF MAN).
For Teilhard's view of the spiritual life, see his book THE DIVINE MILIEU, translated by Sion Cowell (Sussex Academic Press, 2004; an earlier English translation was published in 1960 as THE DIVINE MILIEU: AN ESSAY ON THE INTERIOR LIFE).
Unfortunately, the Roman Catholic Church has not yet officially declared Teilhard to be a doctor of the church -- nor has it yet formally and officially expunged the doctrine of original sin and denounced it as anathema.
In American culture, Protestant fundamentalists have not adjusted their interpretations of the two accounts of creation in Genesis in ways that are not inconsistent with up-to-date evolutionary theory.
See James H. Fetzer's book RENDER UNTO DARWIN: PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT'S CRUSADE AGAINST SCIENCE (Open Court, 2007).
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