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What's Wrong With Sin? Contemporary Doctrines of Sin in Individual and Social Perspective
Category: Books > Theology > Moral Theology
Author/Artist: DEREK NELSON
ISBN / ID: 9780567266767
Publisher: T & T Clark
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$55.95
  
Description: The 20th century witnessed a vast proliferation of conceptions of sin in Christian thought. One hallmark thereof has been an increased emphasis on the non-individualistic dimensions of human sin. It is suggested here that there have been two primary types of rejections of individualism in doctrines of sin in the last half-century, the "structural sin" type and the "relational self" type.
After an introduction to the current discussion on the doctrine of sin, two 19th century rejections of individualistic conceptions of sin are exposited and critiqued.
The author also examines the development of Latin American liberation theologies of sin, including extensive analyses of Gutierrez, Segundo, Boff, He also analyses feminist writings on sin, including in-depth treatments of Suchocki, Ruether.
Criticisms of these thinkers are categorized according to both the structural sin and relational self types. The book makes recommendations drawn from the preceding analyses for further understanding of the social dimensions of sin: the need for clarifying the agential status of a "social structure;" the moral culpability of a relational self; and a call to integrate the structural sin and relational self types into a future doctrine of social sin.
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