The emergence of sin: the cosmic tyrant in Romans
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 transgression and that this power is nevertheless a...
| Summary: | 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 transgression and that this power is nevertheless a real person. Cover -- The Emergence of Sin -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. s/Sin: The Genealogy of a Person(ification) -- Sin Came Through Sinning: Bultmannian Reduction -- Standing Under Definite Lordship: Käsemannian Dualism -- Sinful Institutions: Liberationist Emergence? -- Conclusions -- 2. Emergence -- Emergent Properties -- Dualisms, Mental, and Vital -- Reduction -- Emergentism as a Trans-Ordinal Theory -- A Brief History of Emergence Theory -- The Generative Dialectic: Supervenience and Downward Causation -- The Problem of Downward Causation -- Downward Causation in Chemistry -- Downward Causation in Biology -- Downward Causation in Sociology -- Case Study: Racism -- Conclusions -- 3. The Emergence of Persons Great and Small -- An Emergent Ontology of Human Persons -- The Self Out of Bounds -- The Social Self: Superorganisms and Group Minds -- Organisms, Superorganisms, and Biological Relativity of Scale -- Group Minds -- Conclusions -- Sin as a Mythological Person: A Superorganism with a Group Mind -- 4. An Emergent Account of Sin in Romans -- The Emergence of the Cosmic Power, Sin -- The Body of Sin -- The Dominion of Sin -- Race, the Law, and the Dominion of Sin -- Law and the Dominion of Sin -- The Transmission of Sin -- Conclusions -- 5. Sin, Gender, and Empire -- Ancient Ideology of Self-Mastery -- Desire and the Passions vs. the Mind in Romans -- The Emergence of the Goddess Roma -- Roma's Gender Trouble -- Hamartia as Tribadic Roma -- The Body of Christ and the Obedience of Faith -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Modern-Day Mythological Persons? -- Toward an Emergent Hamartiology -- Confronting Youth Violence: A Personal Story and Modest Ecumenical Hope -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 0190277998 |