1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459361403321

Autore

Nelson Derek R.

Titolo

What's wrong with sin? : sin in individual and social perspective from Schleiermacher to theologies of liberation / Derek R. Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : T & T Clark, 2009

ISBN

0-567-66067-2

1-282-86787-3

9786612867873

0-567-05926-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

202.2

Soggetti

Sin

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-206) and index

Nota di contenuto

Chapter I: Introduction -- Part I: Nineteenth Century Typology -- Chapter II: Ritschl's Critique of Schleiermacher on Individual Sin -- Chapter III: Finney and Nevin on Individual and Social Sin -- Part II: Twentieth Century Application -- Chapter IV: Individual and Social Sin in Selected Latin American Theologies -- Chapter V: Individual and Social Sin in Selected Feminist Theologies -- Chapter VI: Individual and Social Sin in Selected Asian Theologies -- Chapter VII: Conclusion --

Sommario/riassunto

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. The book concludes with 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