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The devastating evils of recent history have brought about renewed interest in the Christian doctrine of sin. This volume explores with fresh insight and great seriousness the contemporary plausibility, meaning, and relevance of the biblical understanding of the Fall and its effects. Marguerite Shuster argues that certain aspects of the traditional doctrine of the Fall, including the belief that...

No external power or suggestion coming upon a person from the outside can compel that person, insofar as she is a free and rational agent, to commit a voluntary and responsible act of sin—the all too familiar sort of sin regarding which we say, or would say if we were being strictly honest, “Yes, I knew better, but I did it anyway.” We have tried to put that affirmation carefully, for, a fortiori after the Fall, there are always factors of environment
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