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The Morality of Sins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

David G. Attfield
David G. Attfield
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Hull, England
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Once upon a time, at an examination for Fellowships at All Souls, there was a three-hour essay paper. When the eager candidates turned over their question-papers, on the reverse they found a blank expanse of whiteness with one little word in the centre for them to write about: the word was ‘SIN’.

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Religious Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1984 , pp. 227 - 237
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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References

page 227 note 1 The Concept of Sin (Cambridge, 1912), chs. III–VI.

page 228 note 1 Strawson, P. F., Social Morality and Individual Ideal. In Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy, ed. Ramsey, I. T. (London, 1966), ch. 15.Google Scholar

page 229 note 1 It is in this sense that Matthew 5:28 is defensible.

page 230 note 1 Jonah I: 1–3.

page 230 note 2 Hare, R. M., The Language of Morals (Oxford, 1952), 11.5.Google ScholarFreedom and Reason (Oxford, 1963), Chs. 2, 3, 6, 10 and 11.

page 231 note 1 Ethics and Christianity (London, 1970), Ch. IX.

page 232 note 1 The Object of Morality (London, 1971), Chs. 2 and 3.

page 233 note 1 Nicomachean Ethics, vii. i if.

page 234 note 1 Ibid.

page 234 note 2 ‘insincere’ op.cit. (1952), pp. 19–20, 169; (1963), pp. 79, 83; also Moral Thinking (1981), p. 185; ‘amoral’ op.cit. (1981), pp. 183–7.

page 237 note 1 Kirk, K. E., The Vision of God (1931), pp. 540–4;Google ScholarSome Principles of Moral Theology (1920), ch. XI.