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 psychological self, the storied-self: what do they bring to the narratives of atonement, what do they look for, what do they understand? There is a slight irony in the fact that the decision to approach this issue via the use of narrative has sub-consciously shaped the work itself. The following chapters take the form of a narrative structure, moving from a place of conflict to resolution (What’s wrong? What’s the solution?). The opening chapter establishes the conflict. Drawing on cultural commentary,

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