Camus's short but powerful Nobel-prize winning novel is a wild and inventive existentialist masterpiece that Pacifica seniors read in their capstone Humanities seminar – Faith and Culture. Through a probing examination of the experience of guilt, judgment, and self-justification, the book raises questions that every human being must eventually face and for which they must give an account. While Camus writes apart from Christian faith, his work provides a compelling conversation partner for understanding the human condition and our need for redemption. Reading The Fall sharpens our ability to recognize both the limits of secular answers and the enduring significance of the Christian account of the human person.