Matt Jenson is Assistant Professor of Theology in the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University, USA.

• Introduction; 1. Augustine's inward turn: An ambiguous beginning; Love makes the city; The goodness of the garden; Participation and relationality; Civic foundations; What happened? The beginning of sin; Falsehood; Pride; Isolation; Falling into slavery; The call to humility; Augustine's ambiguous inwardness in The Trinity; A conclusion; 2. Luther's radical and religious invurvature. Setting the task; Simus iustus et peccator; Fuel to the fire: The persistence of the fomes; Copernicux Redux; The logic of person and works; Totus homo? The postures of death and spirit; Incurvatus in se as ignorance: The critique of natural understanding; Using, enjoying: Incurvatus in se as egoism; Homo religiosus as Homo incurvatus in se; The violation of vocation: Transgressing the limits of calling; Conclusion: Augustine versus Luther?; 3. (How) Do women sin? Daphne Hampson and the Feminist critique of Luther; Introduction; Hampson's critique of Luther on sin, incurvatus in se and the self; Hampson's alternative; Transition: Key questions; Problems with a gendered approach to sin; Hampson's account of sin per se and the controlling factor of continuity; On the explanatory sufficiency of incurvatus in se; 4. Broadening the range of the metaphor: Barth's threefold description of sin; Introduction; A brief apology for paradigms; Sin Christologically defined; Humanity through a Christological lens: A closer look; Sin as pride; Sin as falsehood; Sin as sloth; Hampson and Barth: A tale of two sloths; Conclusion; Coda; Select Bibliography.

'Jenson offers a lively and learned analysis of the theme of sin as introversion and loss of relation; he has a good eye for the place of Christian teaching about sin in the corpus of Christian doctrine, a wide knowledge of modern theology, and a sure touch in exposition and critique. This is an intelligent piece of constructive theology, and it deserves many readers.'   John Webster, Professor of Systematic Theology, King's College, University of Aberdeen