Whatever Happened to the Doctrine of Sin?

Abstract

“I want to suggest that the doctrine of sin is vigorously alive but has migrated. It has moved into different contexts provided by various doctrinal loci; it has moved under the pressure of subtly different judgments about what the basic gist is of the Christian message; and the effects of the moves are pastorally, morally, and even politically practical. We can broadly map the doctrine's migration by noting its traditional home and sketching three trajectories along which it has migrated.”