Redeeming Sin?: Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498542456)

Can Christian sin-talk be retrieved within the public sphere? In this contribution to ecotheology, Ernst M. Conradie argues that, amid ecological destruction, discourse on sin can contribute to a multidisciplinary depth diagnosis of what has gone wrong in the world. He confronts some major obstacles related to the plausibility of sin-talk in conversation with evolutionary biology, the cognitive sciences, and animal ethology. He defends an Augustinian insistence that social evil, rather than natural evil, is our primary predicament. If the root cause of social evil is sin, then a Christian confession of sin may yet yield good news for the whole earth.

Author: Ernst M. Conradie
ISBN-10: 149854245X
ISBN-13: 9781498542456
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2017
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d