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15 kwi 2021 · The doctrine of original sin also clearly has social implications: if all human beings suffer from original sin, then their social interactions will be impacted by it.
A number of Christian theologians and philosophers have been critical of overly moralizing approaches to the doctrine of sin, but nearly all Christian thinkers maintain that moral fault is necessary or sufficient for sin to obtain. Call this the “Moral Consensus.”
15 paź 2021 · On the Cooperation account, philosophy and theology are understood to be different, but mutually supporting, intellectual activities. For Christian thinkers who advocate Cooperation, philosophy and theology form a coherent, mutually supportive whole.
30 paź 2019 · I argue that that social sin requires social redemption and that exemplarism would provide a solution. Christ's pursuit of love and justice, in the midst of oppression, temptation, and struggle, offers a distinctive model of virtue, towards collective restoration of the world.
The notions of social sin and sinful social structures entered the vocabulary of the universal church largely due to their role in the liberation theology and in the docu-ments of the Latin American bishops at Medellín and Puebla. Yet, once more widely employed, social sin became frustratingly multivalent, and theological explanations
2 wrz 2009 · 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.
5 maj 2015 · Within this metaphysical context, the classical synthesis discusses original sin under two aspects: peccatum originale originans, the primal sin of Adam and Eve, and peccatum originale originatum, the condition of original sin we inherit from them. The primal sin is described in the context of a narrative.
