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This one-volume introduction to systematic theology draws deeply on the catholic and Reformed heritage to present the major doctrines of the Christian faith, displaying the power of theological retrieval for the church’s renewal. Leading Reformed theologians offer the “state of the question” on standard theological topics and engage in both exegetical and historical retrieval for the sake of...

Summarized briefly for our purposes, sin is theocentric and relational; it is primarily against God and then, derivatively, against humans, including the self. Sin is essentially hostility toward God, the image-bearing creature’s rebellious renunciation of fellowship with God as creator. Inevitably, then, sin is idolatrous, the exchange of “the truth of God for a lie,” consisting in worshiping and serving “the creature rather than the Creator” (Rom. 1:25). Sin is the rejection of God’s will and the
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