| Three Devotional Discourses must be read alongside the pseudonymous works, and this requirement is important for those coming to terms with felix culpa. |
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| Looking back at our own past sin, if it was objectively a felix culpa, one has always primarily to repent of it, and this forbids our considering it as a felix culpa. |
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| His black streak of self-destruction will be the felix culpa of his ultimate redemption. |
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| Here the fact that it turned out to be the starting point for our conversion can only present itself in the light of God's ineffable mercy, and not in the light of a felix culpa. |
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| Milton explored the ancient, and Calvinist, teaching that the first sin was a felix culpa, a fortunate fall, and providential because it prepared the way for the world's ultimate reconciliation to God. |
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