an exclusively moralistic presentation of sin is for Jüngel inadequate to describe the human condition. This ‘enslaving’ character of sin is conceptualized in terms of ‘original’ sin (as ‘primal’ rather than ‘inherited’)—that is, as our pervasive complicity and entanglement in false existence through which we place ourselves under the compulsion to sin. The chapter rounds out the theological phenomenology of sin by discussion of the forms of sin: unbelief, the desire to master the distinction between
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