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020			_a9780300149890 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a0300149891 (cloth : alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn317471790
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050	0	0	_aBL475.7 _b.A53 2009
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100	1		_aAnderson, Gary A., _d1955-
245	1	0	_aSin : _ba history / _cGary A. Anderson.
260			_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _cc2009.
300			_axv, 253 p. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505	0		_aPart one: Introducing the problem. What is a sin? -- A burden to be borne -- A debt to be repaid -- Part two: Making payment on one's debt. Redemption and the satisfaction of debts -- Ancient creditors, bound laborers, and the sanctity of the land -- Lengthening the term of debt -- Loans and the Rabbinic sages -- Early Christian thinking on the atonement -- Part three: Balancing debts with virtue. Redeem your sins with alms -- Salvation by works? -- A treasury in heaven -- Why God became man.
520	1		_a"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 demonstrates how sin, once conceived of as a physical burden, becomes, over time, eclipsed by economic metaphors. Transformed from a weight that an individual carried, sin becomes a debt that must be repaid in order to be redeemed in God's eyes." "Anderson shows how this ancient Jewish revolution in thought shaped the way the Christian church understood the death and resurrection of Jesus and eventually led to the development of various penitential disciplines, deeds of charity, and even papal indulgences. In so doing it reveals how these changing notions of sin provided a spur for the Protestant Reformation." "Broad in scope while still exceptionally attentive to detail, this ambitious and profound book unveils one of the most seismic shifts that occurred in religious belief and practice, deepening our understanding of one of the most fundamental aspects of human experience."--BOOK JACKET.
650		0	_aSin _xHistory of doctrines.
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