Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
ISBN 13 | 9780190096946 |
ISBN 10 | 0190096942 |
Author | Matthew Croasmun |
Language | English |
Book Description | Commentators have long argued about whether to read Paul's personification of Sin in Romans literally or figuratively. Matthew Croasmun suggests both that the cosmic power Sin is nothing more than an emergent feature of a vast network of human transg |
About the Author | Matthew Croasmun is Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Life Worth Living Program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Lecturer of Divinity and Humanities at Yale University. He completed his Ph.D. in Religious Studies (New Testament) at Yale in 2014 and was a recipient of the 2015 Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise for his dissertation, "The Body of Sin: An Emergent Account of Sin as a Cosmic Power in Romans 5-8." |
Publication Date | 2020-02-26 |
Number of Pages | 296 pages |
The Emergence of Sin: The Cosmic Tyrant in Romans