A Theory About Sin
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Author | : Matthew Croasmun |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 019027798X |
We can have a sense that when we try to do right by one another, we aren't merely striving against ourselves. The feeling is that we are struggling against something--someone-else. As if there's a force-a person- that wishes us ill. In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul describes just such a person: Sin, a cosmic tyrant who constrains our moral freedom, confuses our moral judgment, and condemns us to slavery and to death. Commentators have long argued about whether Paul literally means to say Sin is a person or is simply indulging in literary personification, but regardless of Paul's intentions, for modern readers it would seem clear enough: there is no such thing as a cosmic tyrant. Surely it is more reasonable to suppose "Sin" is merely a colorful way of describing individual misdeeds or, at most, a way of evoking the intractability of our social ills. In The Emergence of Sin, Matthew Croasmun suggests we take another look. The vision of Sin he offers is at once scientific and theological, social and individual, corporeal and mythological. He argues both that the cosmic power Sin is nothing more than an emergent feature of a vast human network of transgression and that this power is nevertheless real, personal, and one whom we had better be ready to resist. Ultimately, what is on offer here is an account of the world re-mythologized at the hands of chemists, evolutionary biologists, sociologists, and entomologists. In this world, Paul's text is not a relic of a forgotten mythical past, but a field manual for modern living.
Author | : Orby Shipley |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2023-10-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385205921 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author | : Orby Shipley |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2024-01-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385243432 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author | : Orby Shipley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Deadly sins |
ISBN | : |
A Theory About Sin, In Relation to Some Facts of Daily Life by Orby Shipley, first published in 1875, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author | : Jesse Couenhoven |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2013-06-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199948704 |
According to Augustine's doctrine of original sin, Adam's progeny share a collective guilt which, like an infection, spreads through wayward sexual desires, passing from parent to child. But is it fair to blame sinners if they inherit evil like a disease? In Stricken by Sin, Cured by Christ Jesse Couenhoven clarifies the logic and illogic of Augustine's controversial views about human agency. The first half of the book examines why Augustine believed we are trapped by evil, and why only Christ can save us. Couenhoven examines overlooked texts Augustine wrote at the culmination of his career and offers a novel reading of his views about whether we control our personal identities, what we should be held culpable for, and whether freedom is compatible with necessity. The second half of the book develops a philosophically and scientifically astute theory of responsibility that makes it possible to retrieve some of Augustine's most divisive claims. Couenhoven makes a case for the surprising thesis that a carefully formulated doctrine of original sin is profoundly humane. The claim that sin is original takes seriously our dependence on one another for essential aspects of character and personality, our ownership of cognitive and volitional states that are not simply products of voluntary choices, and our status as personal agents of evil. Attending to these aspects of our lives challenges the idea that each individual's moral and spiritual standing is up to her or him, and drives us to ponder not only the nature of our responsibility and the shape of the freedom we seek, but also the need for grace we all share.
Author | : David Adams Leeming |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1023 |
Release | : 2009-10-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 038771801X |
Integrating psychology and religion, this unique encyclopedia offers a rich contribution to the development of human self-understanding. It provides an intellectually rigorous collection of psychological interpretations of the stories, rituals, motifs, symbols, doctrines, dogmas, and experiences of the world’s religious traditions. Easy-to-read, the encyclopedia draws from forty different religions, including modern world religions and older religious movements. It is of particular interest to researchers and professionals in psychology and religion.
Author | : Raymund Schwager |
Publisher | : Gracewing Publishing |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780852446065 |
"The Christian message of the drama of salvation provides the context for the dynamic exploration of the fundamental issues for human self-reflection and for theological enquiry. English language publication of this, the final work of Raymund Schwager, one of the key exponents of the ideas of Rene Girard, has been eagerly awaited."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Daniel W. Houck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2020-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108493696 |
Drawing on Aquinas, Houck proposes a groundbreaking theory of original sin that is theologically robust and consonant with evolutionary theory.
Author | : William Edwin Orchard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alan Jacobs |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0060783400 |
Jacobs takes readers on a controversial cultural history of the idea of original sin, its origins, history, proponents, and opponents.