The senior Peruvian liberationist Gustavo Gutiérrez reminds us that “sin, the breach with God, is not something that occurs only within some intimate sanctuary of the heart. It always translates into interpersonal relationships, and hence … is the ultimate root of all injustice and oppression—as well as of the social confrontations and conflicts of concrete history.”134 For the African American theologian Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher, sin “means becoming aware of the ways in which Afrikans [sic] (male