The ‘cosmic terrorist’: Reconsidering sin as personal agent
An important contemporary approach to understanding a Pauline account of sin takes sin to be a self or personal agent who acts in the world. This article engages with such a proposal by offering theological analysis. It is argued that the exegetical arguments in favour of the proposal that sin is a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 262-272 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pauline letters
/ Hamartiology
/ Personification
/ Exegesis
/ Science
/ Metaphysics
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| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science HC New Testament NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Apocalyptic
B Sin B Matthew Croasmun B Hamartiology B Paul B emergence theory |
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| Summary: | An important contemporary approach to understanding a Pauline account of sin takes sin to be a self or personal agent who acts in the world. This article engages with such a proposal by offering theological analysis. It is argued that the exegetical arguments in favour of the proposal that sin is a personal agent are less than convincing, and it is argued further that the theory encounters serious theological problems. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930622000357 |