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What´s Wrong with Sin: Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation
Dr Derek R. Nelson
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Description for What´s Wrong with Sin: Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation
Paperback. Examines two primary doctrines of sin the 'structural sin' type and the 'relational self' type. This title includes chapters that track the development of Latin American liberation theologies of sin, analyse feminist and womanist writings on sin, and offer an analysis of selected developments in doctrines of sin from Asian Christian theologians. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 346.
This title portrays two primary doctrines of sin, posited in the last half-century, the 'structural sin' type and the 'relational self' type. After an introduction to the current discussion on the doctrine of sin, two nineteenth century rejections of individualistic conceptions of sin are exposited and critiqued. The book concludes with recommendations drawn from the preceding analyses for further understanding of the social dimensions of sin.
This title portrays two primary doctrines of sin, posited in the last half-century, the 'structural sin' type and the 'relational self' type. After an introduction to the current discussion on the doctrine of sin, two nineteenth century rejections of individualistic conceptions of sin are exposited and critiqued. The book concludes with recommendations drawn from the preceding analyses for further understanding of the social dimensions of sin.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780567266767
SKU
V9780567266767
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About Dr Derek R. Nelson
Derek Nelson is Professor Religion at Wabash College, USA.
Reviews for What´s Wrong with Sin: Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation
'For the theological student or pastor, Derek Nelson's study on the changing understanding of sin should become a vital reference. Nelson traces the critique of individualistic views of sin for more social views and the relational self in 19th century theology. He then shows the flowering of these new understandings in Latin American Liberation theologies, Feminist and Womanist theologies and Korean Minjung Theology in the last third of the twentieth century.' Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont Graduate University, USA
Rosemary Radford Ruether ‘Derek Nelson offers persuasive proposals about how better to formulate a social doctrine of sin. It is based on the most wide-ranging analytical map available of such doctrines of sin, a map that exhibits their differing senses of "sin" and "social" and the various strategies they use to avoid the individualism characteristic of older theologies. Placing them in a larger historical perspective, Nelson shows that although social doctrines of sin are widespread in the past half-century, especially in liberationist theologies, have instructive precedents in nineteenth century theology.' - David H. Kelsey, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, USA
David H. Kelsey 'Hyper-individualism is everyone's favorite whipping-boy these days, but solutions to the problem too often end up flat or trite. Derek Nelson's survey of responses to individualism in the doctrine of sin in the last two centuries nicely sets the table for a constructive theology of social sin. A generous yet incisive reader, Nelson listens to and learns from wildly disparate voices (Schleiermacher and Finney and Gutierrez - oh my!). His critical patience and concern to engage in constructive Christian theology ensure that the strong medicine of contextual theology is not hopelessly diluted by mere description, the vacuous praise of the guilty holders of power, or the flattening of inter-religious generalizations. His proposal to integrate a structural account of sin and a relational anthropology, coupled with a call for analytic rigor in our understandings of both, brings clarity to a cloudy discussion. One only hopes that he will write the constructive theology of social sin for which he calls!' - Matt Jenson, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, USA
Matt Jenson
Rosemary Radford Ruether ‘Derek Nelson offers persuasive proposals about how better to formulate a social doctrine of sin. It is based on the most wide-ranging analytical map available of such doctrines of sin, a map that exhibits their differing senses of "sin" and "social" and the various strategies they use to avoid the individualism characteristic of older theologies. Placing them in a larger historical perspective, Nelson shows that although social doctrines of sin are widespread in the past half-century, especially in liberationist theologies, have instructive precedents in nineteenth century theology.' - David H. Kelsey, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, USA
David H. Kelsey 'Hyper-individualism is everyone's favorite whipping-boy these days, but solutions to the problem too often end up flat or trite. Derek Nelson's survey of responses to individualism in the doctrine of sin in the last two centuries nicely sets the table for a constructive theology of social sin. A generous yet incisive reader, Nelson listens to and learns from wildly disparate voices (Schleiermacher and Finney and Gutierrez - oh my!). His critical patience and concern to engage in constructive Christian theology ensure that the strong medicine of contextual theology is not hopelessly diluted by mere description, the vacuous praise of the guilty holders of power, or the flattening of inter-religious generalizations. His proposal to integrate a structural account of sin and a relational anthropology, coupled with a call for analytic rigor in our understandings of both, brings clarity to a cloudy discussion. One only hopes that he will write the constructive theology of social sin for which he calls!' - Matt Jenson, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, USA
Matt Jenson