Questions of this kind, and attempts to clarify and answer them, can be found in books on ethics and on law, and readers who want to pursue such questions should turn to them. To think theologically about sin is a somewhat different project. Though in the chapters ahead we shall have occasion again and again to discuss particular sins, the first and main task is to locate and inspect the general phenomenon, to place sin and describe it. This is where the definition comes in. “Culpable disturbance
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