Atonement for a ‘Sinless’ Society: Engaging with an Emerging Culture (Biblia.com)

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How can Christians communicate the meaning of the atonement in a society which has little sense of sin left? “Sin doesn’t really exist as a serious idea in modern life, wrote the journalist Bryan Appleyard. He is not alone in his views. Sin has become just as tainted, polluted and defiled in the postmodern mind as the word itself indicates. Atonement for a Sinless Society is...

The postmodern is in every way a child of the romantics … The difference is that the postmodern self no longer harbours hopes of discovering truth or secure principles [defined universally]. Instead, driven by the ideals of therapy and consumption, it seeks … to provide satisfactions for the unencumbered self; it strives to reduce all individual moral actions to matters of choice for which there are no authoritative guidelines or binding principles. In the culture of therapy and interpretation, there

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