Bound to Sin Abuse, Holocaust and the Christian Doctrine of Sin

Name: Bound to Sin Abuse, Holocaust and the Christian Doctrine of Sin
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ISBN: 9780521438681

ISBN-10: 0521438683

ISBN-13: 9780521438681

Edition: 2000

Authors: Alistair I. McFadyen, Daniel W. Hardy

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This book tests the explanatory and descriptive power of the doctrine of sin in relation to two concrete situations: sexual abuse of children and the holocaust. Taking seriously the explanatory power of secular discourses for analysing and regulating therapeutic action in relation to such situations, the book asks whether the theological language of sin can offer further illumination by speaking of God and the world together. Through its discussion of abuse and the holocaust, an engagement with Augustine, original sin and feminism, a fresh and sometimes surprising perspective is offered, both on the theology of sin and on the pathologies under consideration. The understanding of sin that…

Book details

List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

McFadyen is Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds.



Acknowledgments



Drawing into Conversation



The loss of God: pragmatic atheism and the language of sin



Speaking morally? The case of original sin



Testing, testing: theology in concrete conversation



Concrete Pathologies



Bound by silence: sexual abuse of children



What was the problem? 'The Final Solution' and the binding of reason



Testing the Inheritence



Willing



Power and participation: feminist theologies of sin



Augustine's will



A question of standards: trinity, joy, worship and idolatry



Concrete idolatries


Index of names


Index of subjects