SIN

In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, ex ploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity. Long before Christianity, of course, cultures h ad articulated the idea that human wrongdoing violated relations with the divine. But Sin tells how, in the fevered atmosphere of th e four centuries between Jesus and Augustine, singular new Christian ideas about sin emerged in rapid and vigorous variety, includin g the mo...[Read more]