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The Emergence of Sin. The Cosmic Tyrant in Romans.
Matthew Croasmun
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Hardback. Commentators have long argued about whether to read Paul's personification of Sin in Romans literally or figuratively. Matthew Croasmun suggests both that the cosmic power Sin is nothing more than an emergent feature of a vast network of human transgression and that this power is nevertheless a real person. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM3; HRC; HRCF2; HRCM; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Where does evil come from? And how did it become so powerful? We can have a sense that when we try to do right by one another, we aren't merely striving against ourselves. The feeling is that we are struggling against something--someone--else. As if there's a force--a person--that wishes us ill. In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul describes just such a person: Sin, a cosmic tyrant who constrains our moral freedom, confuses our moral judgment, and condemns us to slavery and to death. Commentators have long argued about whether Paul literally means ... Read more
Where does evil come from? And how did it become so powerful? We can have a sense that when we try to do right by one another, we aren't merely striving against ourselves. The feeling is that we are struggling against something--someone--else. As if there's a force--a person--that wishes us ill. In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul describes just such a person: Sin, a cosmic tyrant who constrains our moral freedom, confuses our moral judgment, and condemns us to slavery and to death. Commentators have long argued about whether Paul literally means ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190277987
SKU
V9780190277987
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About Matthew Croasmun
Matthew Croasmun is Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Life Worth Living Program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Lecturer of Divinity and Humanities at Yale University. He completed his Ph.D. in Religious Studies (New Testament) at Yale in 2014 and was a recipient of the 2015 Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise for his dissertation, ... Read more
Reviews for The Emergence of Sin. The Cosmic Tyrant in Romans.
A striking study, then, and well worth reading for an original and stimulating exposition of Romans. Those interested in the philosophical questions of emergentism will find it fascinating and provocative and themselves, on closing the book, with many more questions that they wish to ask.
Euan Alexander Grant, The Emergence of Sin
...highly theoretical...
Jeffrey S. Siker, ... Read more
Euan Alexander Grant, The Emergence of Sin
...highly theoretical...
Jeffrey S. Siker, ... Read more