Not the Way it's S'Pposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin
“All traditional Christians agree that human beings have a biblically certified and empirically demonstrable bias toward evil. We are both complicitous in and molested by the evil of our race. We both discover evil and invent it; we both ratify and extend it. … By disposition, practice, and habit, h...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1993
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Theology today
Year: 1993, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 179-192 |
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Summary: | “All traditional Christians agree that human beings have a biblically certified and empirically demonstrable bias toward evil. We are both complicitous in and molested by the evil of our race. We both discover evil and invent it; we both ratify and extend it. … By disposition, practice, and habit, human beings let loose a great, rolling momentum of evil across generations.”“Everything's s'pposed to be different than what it is here.”Mac (Danny Glover) in “Grand Canyon” |
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ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057369305000203 |