Rightly, when considering the doctrine of original sin, neither Edward Schillebeeckx nor Piet Schoonenberg jump immediately to mind as expositors of the traditional form of the doctrine. If one were to accuse Schillebeeckx of ignoring original sin completely, it would not be entirely unfair: in his published works, he certainly never addresses the topic at any length, and what references there are, are scattered and diffuse. Schoonenberg did at least give the topic a little more attention, but his approach represents a significant departure from the traditional approach to the question, and has, not unreasonably, been accused of failing to answer some of the core questions that motivate the doctrine. Nonetheless, to a contemporary discussion of the question of original sin, they each raise important questions that must be answered for the doctrine to remain credible.