Sin: Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be—Full Article

Endnotes

1This is especially true of the prophet Isaiah in chapters 2, 11, 32, 42, 60, and 65.

2Augustine, Confessions (trans. and with an introduction by Henry Chadwick; New York: Oxford, 1992), 3 (1.1.1).

3Nicholas Wolterstorff, “Abraham Kuyper on Christian Learning” (New Haven: unpublished, 1997), 15–17.

4Richard Lewontin, “Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York Review of Books (January 7, 1997): 31.

5This judgment stitches together six days of creation in Genesis 1.

6Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea (London: Everyman, 1995), 216.

7Patrick McCormick, Sin as Addiction (New York: Paulist, 1989), 152.

8Garry Wills, Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987), 384.

9See Stephen Westerholm, Israel’s Law and the Church’s Faith (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988), 160.

10C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (repr., New York: Macmillan, 1977), 49.

11Augustine, Confessions, 3.7.12.

12Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire (Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1983), 307–8.

13Lewis, Mere Christianity, 53.

14Augustine, On the Merits and Remission of Sins, 2.36.22: “What is called ‘sin’ dwelling in our members is sin in this way: that it becomes the punishment of sin.” (I owe this reference and translation to Professor Mark F. Williams.)

15Calvin, Institutes, 1:43–45 (1.3.1–2), 1:272–73 (2.2.13–14), 1:292–93 (2.3.3).

16Geoffrey W. Bromiley, “Sin,”in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ed. Geoffrey W. Bromiley; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988), 4:522.

17Merold Westphal, Suspicion and Faith (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993), 13, 16–17.

18Martin Buber, Between Man and Man, quoted in Westphal, Suspicion and Faith, 25.

19Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (2 vols.; New York: Scribner’s, 1964), 1:182.

20Ibid., 1:183–86.

21Augustine, The City of God 14.13. Like Scripture writers, Augustine thinks of the human heart not just as the seat of emotion but also as the governing center of a human being.

22Jack Beatty, “A Call to Order: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Evasion,” Atlantic Monthly (August 1993): 18.

23William Muehl, Why Preach? Why Listen? (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986), 65.

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