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Christian Faith: A New Translation and Critical Edition, Volumes I & II is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christian Faith is one of the most important works of Christian theology ever written. The author, known as the “father of theological liberalism,” correlates the entirety of Christian doctrine to the human experience of and consciousness of God. A work of exhaustive scholarship written in deep sympathy with the ministry of congregations and church bodies, Christian Faith has inspired admiration...

Indeed, susceptibility to sin is to be understood rightly and fully only in this commonality. Hence, the doctrinal propositions that treat of original sin and susceptibility to sin are in no way to be conceived as expressions of personal self-consciousness, with which, in contrast, the doctrine of actual sin has to do; rather, these propositions are expressions of collective consciousness. This collectivity of sin and susceptibility to sin comprises an inclusive solidarity18 of all times and places
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