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Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin is unavailable, but you can change that!

This timely book retrieves an old awareness that has slipped and changed in recent decades. The awareness of sin used to be our shadow. Christians hated sin, feared it, fled from it—and grieved over it. But the shadow of sin has now dimmed in our consciousness. Even preachers, who once got visibly angry over a congregation’s sin, now speak of sin in a mumble. Cornelius Plantinga pulls the...

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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