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Sin : a history /
"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 demons...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- part 1: introducing the problem
- Chapter 1 : What is a sin?
- Chapter 2: A burden to be borne
- Chapter 3: A debt to be repaid
- part 2: Making payment on one's debt
- Chapter 4: Redemption and the satisfaction of debts
- Chapter 5: Ancient creditors, bound laborers, and the sanctity of the land
- Chapter 6: Lengthening the term of debt
- Chapter 7: Loans and the Rabbinic sages
- Chapter 8: Early Christian thinking on the atonement
- part 3: Balancing debts with virtue
- Chapter 9: Redeem your sins with alms
- Chapter 10: Salvation by works?
- Chapter 11: A treasury in heaven
- Chapter 12: Why God became man.