Rethinking Systemic Sin | Jesus Creed | A Blog by Scot McKnight

Rethinking Systemic Sin | Jesus Creed | A Blog by Scot McKnight:

Sin in the Pauline letters seems to be more than the violation of a command and seems to take on systemic force. Christian theology’s doctrines of original sin and guilt are but one example of theological attempts to come to terms with lower case sins and upper case Sin as a tyrant. In Matthew Croasmun’s recently published dissertation, The Emergence of Sin, a series of proposals are made that provide innovative solutions to all the above and more.