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Dec 3, 2014 · Paul the apostle (foreground), from Albrecht Dürer, The Four Apostles (1526), Alte Pinakothek, Munich. We will now turn to Romans 5:15-19, the locus classicus of the doctrine of original sin. In several places in Romans 5 (verses 15, 17, 18, and 19), the Apostle Paul refers to Adam as a single individual.
Aug 22, 2006 · Sin is the refusal to be open to the other: to the transcendent Other or to the immanent other. That is, it is the refusal to respond to the “is” of God’s love in a faithful way, or the refusal to obey the “ought” which directs us to love the other.
- Michael Sievernich
- 2005
In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spanning nearly two thousand years, the book brilliantly demonstrates how sin, once conceived of as a physical burden, becomes, over time, eclipsed by economic metaphors.
Jul 11, 2022 · Human death is natural from the perspective of evolutionary biology but unnatural from the vantage point of classical Christian theology. The biblical notion that death entered the world as a result of sin seems hard to square with the view that (human) death has been an integral part of the natural order all along.
Summary. JUSTICE AS UNFAIRNESS. Recent biologically informed moralists, after flirting with the ethics of extreme individualism, have instead discovered that there are advantages, even for our genes, in being sociable. It is, after all, a good idea to do each other good, because until recently the beneficiaries were probably our kin, and might ...
Nov 1, 2013 · Everything good in life is illegal, immoral or fattening—or so the saying goes. A few centuries ago religious authorities sought to codify that sentiment into a handy list, which we know today ...
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Sep 2, 2009 · Abstract. The atonement is one of the central and defining doctrines of Christian theology. Yet the nature of the atonement – how it is that Christ's life and death on the cross actually atone for human sin – remains a theological conundrum. This article offers a new argument for an old theory of the atonement, namely, penal substitution.
