Redeeming Sin?

Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Theology, Ethics, Christianity
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Author: Ernst M. Conradie ISBN: 9781498542463
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: October 11, 2017
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Ernst M. Conradie
ISBN: 9781498542463
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: October 11, 2017
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

Can Christian sin-talk be retrieved within the public sphere? In this contribution to ecotheology, Ernst M. Conradie argues that, amid ecological destruction, discourse on sin can contribute to a multidisciplinary depth diagnosis of what has gone wrong in the world. He confronts some major obstacles related to the plausibility of sin-talk in conversation with evolutionary biology, the cognitive sciences, and animal ethology. He defends an Augustinian insistence that social evil, rather than natural evil, is our primary predicament. If the root cause of social evil is sin, then a Christian confession of sin may yet yield good news for the whole earth.

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Can Christian sin-talk be retrieved within the public sphere? In this contribution to ecotheology, Ernst M. Conradie argues that, amid ecological destruction, discourse on sin can contribute to a multidisciplinary depth diagnosis of what has gone wrong in the world. He confronts some major obstacles related to the plausibility of sin-talk in conversation with evolutionary biology, the cognitive sciences, and animal ethology. He defends an Augustinian insistence that social evil, rather than natural evil, is our primary predicament. If the root cause of social evil is sin, then a Christian confession of sin may yet yield good news for the whole earth.

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