Going against Divine Law: Christianity and Sin
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Theologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 499
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Various issues concerning Christian perspectives on divine law and sin are matters of controversy and relevance for the lives of billions of people around the world today. How did these laws originate and how have they been transmitted? How should these laws be understood, interpreted, and applied within different cultural contexts? How are these laws related to the various notions of sin as action, disposition, and state (e.g., uncleanness) as well as the consequences of sin (including its noetic effects and structural sin)? How do these issues (as well as the debates concerning the different understandings of original sin) relate to other areas of theology, such as doctrine of revelation, divine providence (including the debates concerning theological compatibilism and libertarianism and divine middle knowledge), doctrine of creation (including angelology), and theological anthropology (including current debates concerning evolution and human origins), soteriology, and eschatology? How are these issues related to wider debates in the philosophy of religion (e.g., the problem of evil and divine hiddenness, the moral argument for the existence of God, and divine command theory), ethics and political philosophy (e.g., conflicts with secular understandings of morality and justice), comparative religions, and the psychology of religion (e.g., self-deception, spiritual wellbeing, and human flourishing)? How might case studies from history, missionary encounters, and contemporary social movements shed light on the above issues? This Special Issue welcomes papers which contribute to the discussion on the above-mentioned and related topics.
Dr. Ter Ern Andrew Loke
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- divine law
- Christianity
- sin
- free will
- problem of evil
- original sin
- moral argument
- structural sin
- divine providence
- human flourishing
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