Die soziale Sünde als Hauptursache des relationalen Elends

Abstract

Social sin is emerging as a new category in the hamartology of the last 30 years. The search for an exact definition of this concept cannot be carried out simply, and its results are modest. The understanding of structural sin takes place in the context of an image of the human being who understands man as an ethically capable person in relation to his sociality and speaks of him as such. Social sin must be distinguished from collective guilt and linked to social misery. Social sin is seen as a structural rejection of a responsibility for the future.