Redeeming Sin?

Ernst M. Conradie is senior professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape.

• Introduction: Sin and Social Diagnostics1. Penultimate Perspectives on the Roots of Environmental Destruction in Africa2. Where Have Things Gone Awry in Evolutionary History?3. How is the Story of What Went Wrong in the World to be Told?4. Obstacles Thwarting a Retrieval of a Christian Notion of Sin5. Posse Non Peccare?Conclusion: Engaging in Social Diagnostics

On the back cover of the book well-known theologians Sallie McFague, Mark Douglas, Gijsbert van den Brink and Denis Edwards comment on the scholarship represented in Redeeming Sin and the contribution that the book makes to the field. For Van den Brink and Edwards, the scholarship is perceptive and compelling, written with intellectual rigour and radical honesty and for McFague and Douglas its contribution is powerful, wide raging and pervasive with profound insights. I agree with all of these scholars and would suggest, in addition, that RedeemingSin is relevant and contextual to scholarship in Africa.