Structural Sin and the Death of Institutions

Susannah Cornwall (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032914619 (ISBN)

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Structural Sin and the Death of Institutions explores how Christian understandings of sin map onto institutional failures. It argues that institutions frequently create conditions in which individuals are disempowered and disposed to sin, and that uncritical appeals to redemption, reconciliation and restoration perpetuate harm. The book engages the turn to despair, abolition and termination in recent theologies, and builds on work by those working in other fields including the penal abolitionist movement. It offers an account of sins common to many institutions, including secrecy, exceptionalism, and the over-privileging of institutional reputation, and argues that Christian accounts of forgiveness of sin should not gloss over damage but appropriately remember the past. The volume will appeal to readers interested in Christian doctrines of sin and ecclesiology, including scholars of theological ethics, practical theology, and political theology, and to those asking how far their own continued association with flawed institutions is an unacceptable moral compromise.

Susannah Cornwall is Professor of Constructive Theologies at the University of Exeter, UK.

Part 1 Introduction: Institutional Death Without Resurrection? 1. What is an Institution? What are Institutions Like? 2. These Things Don’t Live Outside of Us: Living in Sin 3. Palliative Care for a Dying Church? 4. Death, Termination, and the Toxicity of Hope Part 2 5. Responsibility and the Exposure of Unaccountable Power 6. Forgiveness Without Forgetting 7. Abolitionist Imagination Toward Revolutionary Resurrection 8. In the Middle of the Broken World, We are Already Otherwise: Remedies for Sin Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-13	9781032914619 / 9781032914619
Zustand	Neuware