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Redeeming Sin? : Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction - Ernst M. Conradie

Redeeming Sin?

Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction

By: Ernst M. Conradie

eText | 11 October 2017 | Edition Number 1

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Can Christian sin-talk be retrieved within the public sphere? In this contribution to ecotheology, Ernst M. Conradie argues that, amid ecological destruction, discourse on sin can contribute to a multidisciplinary depth diagnosis of what has gone wrong in the world. He confronts some major obstacles related to the plausibility of sin-talk in conversation with evolutionary biology, the cognitive sciences, and animal ethology. He defends an Augustinian insistence that social evil, rather than natural evil, is our primary predicament. If the root cause of social evil is sin, then a Christian confession of sin may yet yield good news for the whole earth.

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Christianity has two great traditions—the Protestant, known for its prophetic ‘no’ to human involvement in evil and the Catholic, stressing its positive, celebrative side. Ernst Conradie has given us a splendid book in the prophetic tradition, re-imagining the ancient doctrine of sin for a postmodern, climate-change society. It is a powerful, thorough, well-written ‘case’ for sin, one that I admire and find very persuasive.
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