The Fall and Sin

The Fall and Sin

Author: Marguerite Shuster

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780802809940

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The devastating evils of recent history have brought about renewed interest in the Christian doctrine of sin. This volume explores with fresh insight and great seriousness the contemporary plausibility, meaning, and relevance of the biblical understanding of the Fall and its effects. Marguerite Shuster argues that certain aspects of the traditional doctrine of the Fall, including the belief that it took place in time and space, cannot simply be set aside without serious consequences for our doctrine of God and our understanding of human identity, dignity, and responsibility. She explores the nature and extent of sin and examines such problematic issues as "degrees" of sin and culpability. Despite the seriousness with which Shuster treats these topics, her discussion is not despairing but instead points to the redemption that God has accomplished in Christ. Filled with contemporary allusions and completed with model sermons on the Fall and sin, this volume is one of the best available studies of this key Christian doctrine.


What Happened to Sin?

What Happened to Sin?

Author: Seán Fagan

Publisher: Columba Press (IE)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781856076333

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A provocative look at the issue of birth control.


The Sinfulness of Sin

The Sinfulness of Sin

Author: Ralph Venning

Publisher: Ravenio Books

Published: 2015-02-12

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13:

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This Puritan classic contains the following chapters: Introduction I. What Sin Is II. The Sinfulness of Sin III. The Witnesses Against Sin IV. The Application and Usefulness of the Doctrine of Sin’s Sinfulness Conclusion


Speaking of Sin

Speaking of Sin

Author: Brown Taylor Barbara

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1848257996

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In Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to words that often cause us discomfort and have widely fallen into neglect: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation. In recovering this lost language in our worship and individual lives, she shows how we can take part in the divine work of redemption.


The Last Sin Eater

The Last Sin Eater

Author: Francine Rivers

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 1999-01-16

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0842335714

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Despite the fact that it's forbidden, Cadi Forbes is determined to find the sin eater after her grandmother's death


Sin

Sin

Author: Gary A. Anderson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2009-09-29

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0300154879

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What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? 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. Transformed from a weight that an individual carried, sin becomes a debt that must be repaid in order to be redeemed in God's eyes. Anderson shows how this ancient Jewish revolution in thought shaped the way the Christian church understood the death and resurrection of Jesus and eventually led to the development of various penitential disciplines, deeds of charity, and even papal indulgences. In so doing it reveals how these changing notions of sin provided a spur for the Protestant Reformation. Broad in scope while still exceptionally attentive to detail, this ambitious and profound book unveils one of the most seismic shifts that occurred in religious belief and practice, deepening our understanding of one of the most fundamental aspects of human experience.


Wages of Sin

Wages of Sin

Author: Jenna Maclaine

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-07-29

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780312946166

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Dulcinea "Cin" Craven, having inherited magical powers and become the target of a vampire and a demon who want them for themselves, teams up with the warriors of the Righteous, meeting and falling in love with Michael who gives her the option to remain human or become immortal like him.


Sin Bravely

Sin Bravely

Author: Maggie Rowe

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2016-11-21

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1593766661

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A tour de force, voice-driven debut that examines how one woman finally found the middle ground between Heaven and Hell--an NPR Best Book of the Year. As a young girl, Maggie Rowe took the idea of salvation very seriously. Growing up in a moderately religious household, her fear of eternal damnation turned into a childhood terror that drove her to become an outrageously dedicated Born-again Christian —regularly slinging Bible verses in cutthroat scripture memorization competitions and assaulting strangers at shopping malls with the “good news” that they were going to hell. Finally, at nineteen, crippled by her fear, she checked herself in to an Evangelical psychiatric facility. And that is where her journey really began. Surrounded by a ragtag cast of characters, including a former biker meth-head struggling with anger management issues, a set of identical twins tormented by erotic fantasies, a World War II veteran and artist of denial who insists that he’s only “locked up for a tune-up,” and a warm and upbeat chronic depressive who becomes the author’s closest ally, Maggie launches a campaign to, in the words of Martin Luther, "Sin bravely in order to know the forgiveness of God."