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How is the Concept of Sin related to the Concept of Moral Wrongdoing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Ingolf Dalferth
Ingolf Dalferth
Affiliation:
University of Tubingen
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Professor Mitchell's strategy for answering the question before us appears to be straightforward. Part, at least, of saying that the concepts of sin and moral wrongdoing belong to different vocabularies is that they are intensionally different. But this does not exclude their being related. Taken as concepts in extension there appear to be five possible relations between sin (S) and moral wrongdoing (M) not all of which Mitchell considers:

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Religious Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1984 , pp. 175 - 189
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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