Wie steht es mit der Sünde?

This second part of the large review of the current German speaking contributions to hamartiology focuses mainly on the Roman-Catholic debate, which deals with the question of the sinful church (J. Enxing), with the hereditary sin in the context of human freedom and of the current society (Deusner/Böttigheimer, Stinglhammer). To the topic belongs also the book by K. Huizing, who wants to abandon the concept of sin wholly because it is enough with sin by now. And also a collection of texts regarding the question of evil in the Classical German Philosophy, that thematically overlaps with the topic of sin to a large extent. At the end, the reviewer identifies five main and actual points that arise from the reviewed discussion and sketches shortly the direction of possible answers: the problem of the knowledge of sin in its whole depth, the difference and relation of sin and debt, the role of the christological perfectum of the cross, the ambiguity of existence as the fundamental form of corruptedness of all reality and the crucial and critical question of sin and freedom.

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