Sin and the Social World

Daniel Lee Hill and Ty Kieser critique accounts of “supra-personal sin” by asking whether such accounts violate the doctrine of the sinlessness of Christ. Their description of discourse about sinful social structures that relies on analysis from critical realist sociology in current Christian ethics...

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Main Author: Finn, Daniel K. 1947- (Author)
Contributors: Hill, Daniel Lee (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2023
In: Modern theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 114-120
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jesus Christus / Sinlessness / Sin / Social structure
IxTheo Classification:NBE Anthropology
NBF Christology
ZB Sociology
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Summary:Daniel Lee Hill and Ty Kieser critique accounts of “supra-personal sin” by asking whether such accounts violate the doctrine of the sinlessness of Christ. Their description of discourse about sinful social structures that relies on analysis from critical realist sociology in current Christian ethics is largely accurate but adds a mistaken assumption that such discourse is an attempt to account for “social sin.” On the contrary, this understanding of sinful social structures accounts for the presence of sin in the social world by understanding that persons, not structures, commit sins, but that social structures are accurately described as sinful when they present persons within them with incentives that encourage sinful decisions. Those who endorse a notion of social sin may wish to respond to the criticisms of Hill and Kieser, but with a focus on sinful social structures, there is no need for talk of “social sin,” “structural sin,” or “supra-personal sin.”1
ISSN:1468-0025
Reference:Kritik von "Social Sin and the Sinless Savior: Delineating Supra-Personal Sin in Continuity with Conciliar Christology (2022)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Modern theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/moth.12807