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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...

Nonetheless, the fall narrative has a kind of prominence due to its position in the Bible, its familiarity, and the power of the story itself that requires us come to grips with what the story (and its place in the primal history) means: when Jesus speaks of blood shed “from righteous Abel to Zechariah son of Barachiah” (Matt. 23:35), anyone with even a little biblical awareness understands the first reference, but few indeed know the second. Furthermore, we demur from the conclusion that it does
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