What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger
over time? In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary
Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay
at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spanning nearly two
thousand years, the book brilliantly demonstrates how sin, once
conceived of as a physical burden, becomes, over time, eclipsed by
economic metaphors. Transformed from a weight that an individual
carried, sin becomes a debt that must be repaid in order to be
redeemed in God's eyes.
Anderson shows how this ancient Jewish revolution in thought
shaped the way the Christian church understood the death and
resurrection of Jesus and eventually led to the development of
various penitential disciplines, deeds of charity, and even papal
indulgences. In so doing it reveals how these changing notions of
sin provided a spur for the Protestant Reformation.
Broad in scope while still exceptionally attentive to detail,
this ambitious and profound book unveils one of the most seismic
shifts that occurred in religious belief and practice, deepening
our understanding of one of the most fundamental aspects of human
experience.
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