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This significant work, precipitated by the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the doctrine of justification, represents Eberhard Jüngel’s most sustained theological writing for some time. Jüngel examines the role of justification in Christian Faith—and emphasizes its central importance. He traces the history of the concept of “justice” in Greek thought, and of the Old Testament...

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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