Concept Of Sin Research Articles

Redemption of Sins in Christianity: Analysis of the Holy Bible Texts

Sin has been a frequently discussed topic in the context of Christianity. The concept of inherited sin is viewed as a barrier between humans and God. Christians believe in the redemption of this sin through the sacred blood of Jesus Christ. This concept was prophesied in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament. This research focuses on the fundamental question regarding the forgiveness of sins through the blood of Jesus, which, over time, evolved from the practice of redemption through priests to the inclusion of indulgences. The objective of this study is to examine and comprehend the sacredness of Jesus Christ's blood, which is the centerpiece of Christian belief, where His blood is seen as the means of sin redemption. A critical descriptive analysis method is employed to explore these the means of sin redemption. A critical descriptive analysis method is employed to explore these viewpoints, revealing various dilemmas arising from Paul's interpretation of this concept. The research findings indicate that the concept of sin in Christianity is a core element of Christian faith, wherein inherited sin can only be absolved through the sacrificial blood of Jesus. However, contemporary Christian teachings have undergone transformations that alter original aspects of the doctrine, where Paul's interpretations, seen as introductions to Christian teachings, influence the original meanings and give rise to the practice of indulgences, which have become part of the evolving Christian doctrine.

FEATURES OF THE AMARTOLOGY OF ST. PORPHYRIOS THE KAFSOKALYVITE

The article presents an analytical review of St. Porphyrios the Kafsokalyvite’s concept of sin and repentance. The amartology of St. Porphyrios is closely connected with his teaching about man; in his judgments he relies on tradition, on the Holy Scripture, on thoughts of holy fathers. At the same time, St. Porphyrios’ understanding of sinfulness and the process of liberation from the power of sin has its own peculiarities. He uses the metaphorical expressions “confused person”, “confusion” when it comes to sinfulness. The article analyses the genesis and semantic content of these concepts. In a person Elder Porphyrios distinguishes the “good Self” and the “bad Self”. In general, sinfulness is interpreted by him in a psychological way, not as an abstract philosophical or theological concept. Speaking about repentance, he also suggests means that are traditional for the Christian tradition, such as confession, and also (which is already unusual for Christian ascetic discourse) he talks about the harm of “fixation” on the problem of sin in a Christian’s life; instead of the strategy of struggling with passions and sins he suggests focusing on acquiring virtue, love and Christ himself.

MENELISIK KONSEP DOSA DAN PERTOBATAN DALAM RITUS “OKE SAKI” MASYARAKAT ADAT WANGKUNG RAHONG DAN PERBANDINGANNYA DENGAN AJARAN KATOLIK

The purpose of this article is to explains the Wangkung Rahong people’s concept of sin and repentance in the “Oke Saki” rite and is then reflected in the Catholic Church’s concept of sin and repentance. The author makes a comparison by finding similarities and differences between the concept of the Wangkung Rahong people and the Catholic Church’s concept of sin and repentance. The method that used in this study is qualitative method. The author also will formulates the pastoral implications of the similarities and differences between the Wangkung Rahong people and the Catholic Church’s concept of sin and repentance.

Signs of an Augustinian Original Sin in Milan? The Origin and Nature of Human Sin According to Ambrose

Abstract Ambrose’s conception of sin is seldom studied. When it is, scholars often regard Ambrose’s thinking as an imperfect preparation for that of his best-known pupil, Augustine of Hippo. The present article redresses this oversight by investigating Ambrose’s conception of sin in its own right. The starting point for Ambrose’s hamartiology is his belief in the personal choice of the will. On several occasions, he attributes the Fall in Eden entirely to human responsibility. Because of this first sin, Adam and Eve lost their potential for perfect virtue and immortality. Adam’s sin, moreover, had consequences for all humankind: mortality, the loss of godlikeness, and the dissemination of a tendency to sin being chief among them. Ambrose’s reflections on Christian baptism provide an important litmus test for his thinking about the impact of Adamic sin. What exactly does baptism erase? According to the Milanese catechist, baptism erases primarily individual sins. Though Ambrose accepts the pernicious impact of Adam’s sin, we argue that his doctrine of (original) sin may not be accurately considered proto-Augustinian. Unlike Augustine’s view, here it is not Adam’s sin per se that humankind has inherited, but rather a general tendency to sin. Ambrose also never speaks of inherited guilt, but of a contamination. Finally, Ambrose always tries to balance the negative influence of original sin with his belief in individual choice and his programme of moral improvement for all Christians.

Feuerbach and Kierkegaard on Sin as Infinite Qualitative Difference

Abstract By contextualising the striking similarities in Feuerbach and Kierkegaard’s conceptions of sin as infinite qualitative difference, and the related question of the individual and the species as a shared response to the Hegelian Entzweiung, this article seeks to offer a new framework for understanding Feuerbach’s critique of Christian theology and of Kierkegaard’s famous articulation of the infinite qualitative difference as simultaneously ontological, hamartiological, and soteriological. It argues that Kierkegaard offers a modification of the Feuerbachian account to argue against Feuerbach’s conclusion that the Christian doctrine of sin negates qualitative differences between individual humans, and to conversely affirm that sin differentiates not just God and humans, but each single individual too. Kierkegaard might be said to at once uphold Feuerbach’s critique of Hegelian theology, while inverting Feuerbach’s anti-theological programme by harnessing the ambiguities that appear in Feuerbach’s account of sin. It is thereby shown how both Feuerbach and Kierkegaard make use of Hegelian logic, both through their formal application of the concepts of quality and quantity, as well as their creative appropriation of the notion of Entzweiung.

Karl Barth and James Cone on Atonement: Ambiguity in Ontology and the Implications for Ethics

ABSTRACT This paper interrogates critical divergence in interpreting the cross and atonement between James Cone and Karl Barth – and their related ethics. Cone rejects atonement theories and embraces the cross as an interpretative symbol that speaks to the suffering of Black Americans. In contrast, Barth resists interpreting the cross as a symbol and refuses to interpret the cross separately from the atonement. These divergences lead to different conceptions of sin, salvation, and ethical response. Despite their dissimilarities, I argue that Cone and Barth demonstrate a surprisingly similar kind of ambiguity when it comes to ontology and ethics: Cone blurs ontological Blackness and symbolic Blackness while Barth emphasizes divine ontology in a manner that makes it difficult to address of the material, post-colonial world. I conclude, by demonstrating how these ambiguities in both thinkers create challenges to the concrete addressing of ethical concerns, such as reparations in today’s world.

Diseases and the Concept of Sin

Diseases and the Concept of Sin

Religiosity in Tere Liye’s Janji novel (an Approach to the Sociology of Literature)

Novel Janji is one the novels that tell the story of the journey of a religious school child who is looking for a former religious school student decades ago. The author describes religious school children being able to search for someone who disappeared decades ago according to their teacher’s instructions. This study uses a literary sociological analysis approach. The results of the study show that the story in the novel Janji contains five dimensions of religiosity, namely the dimension of belief, the dimension of ritual, the dimension of experience, the dimension of knowledge, and the consequential dimension. In the dimension of belief, it can be seen in the character's belief in doing good, not committing acts of corruption, and the belief in using money to worship. In the ritual dimension, religiosity is seen in the implementation of the five daily prayers, ablution before prayer, Friday prayers, daily expressions, and Idul Fitri prayers. In addition, in the dimension of experience, religiosity is seen in the character's experience of doing bad things, the experience of the character studying at a religious school, and the experience of the character eating inappropriate food for five years. In the knowledge dimension, the value of religiosity can be seen in the concept of sin, the concept of halal and haram, the obligation to pray five times a day, treasures as entrusted in the world, and stories of prophets in the past. At the end, the consequential dimension appears in the actions of the characters in the present which are based on the experiences of the characters in the past.

Экзистенциальная специфика образа дьявола в трагедии И. В. фон Гете "Фауст" и в мистерии Дж. Г. Байрона "Каин"

The works of G. G. Byron and I. Goethe naturally retain their cultural and creative acuteness, illustrating the eternity of rhetorical questions with the multivariance of answer searches. At the same time, the phenomenon of religion and the concepts of sin and guilt associated with it turns out in tragedy and mystery not to be the leitmotif of their plots, but the basis for philosophical and ideological studies of the spheres: the search for absolute truth, a person's life choice, knowledge of the world. It is important to emphasize that in the works of innovation for that time is a detailed psycho-poetic analysis of the characters of the characters. On this basis, this article asks a question about the image of the devil, considered from the side of the romantic and from the side of the educator. This image reveals most vividly the specifics of existential-religious issues of being, sin, purity of the soul.

Семантика греха (к истории и онтологическому статусу понятия)

The article examines various disciplinary and research aspects of the concept of sin, actualizes the problem of historicism of this concept, its ontological rootedness in the experience of Christian thinking. The prerequisites of various dictionary-semantic reconstructions of the concept of sin in the academic publications of Max Vasmer, Oleg Trubachev, Vladimir Dal, Vladislav Sherdakov, etc. are specified. The ethical and ontological mood of the concept in everyday Russian speech is clarified, where it is used to denote misconduct, guilt, debauchery outside of direct connection with the law and the will of the Creator of the world. It is argued that the concept of sin can be classified as ontologically crucial primarily in Christian thinking; it is closely connected here with the study of human nature and human personality, the categories of salvation and redemption. In this regard, the semantics of the concept in the New Testament corpus of biblical works (the Gospels and the Epistles of the Apostle Paul) are systematically presented; representative examples from patristic literature are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the new diagnostic, practice-oriented classifications of sin proposed by Russian thinkers of the XIX-XX centuries – St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov), Archimandrite Evtikhian (Lestev), Archimandrite Ioann (Krestyankin).

The Akan and the Catholic Concept of Sin and Reconciliation Compared

The phenomenon of sin and reconciliation is extant in many religions and as a result, elaborate teachings and rituals are documented around them. The same however cannot be said about the Akan traditional religion. This can be due to the no or late documentation of the theology of the African traditional religion. The problem created is that the Akan perception of sin and its removal in particular and the African Traditional Religion, in general, is often seen as lacking authenticity. This article with the help of comparative theology examines the Akan concept of sin and reconciliation and elucidates how they share some similarities with the Catholic doctrine on sin and reconciliation. The authors used the literary approach and questionnaires to gather data. Twenty (20) Catholic priests in the Catholic Archdiocese of Kumasi were purposively selected to answer eleven questionnaire items on the similarities between the Catholic and the Akan theology of sin and reconciliation. The findings and discussions on the problem elucidate that, the two religious traditions have a doctrine of original sin. They conceptualize sin as a stain, that sin offends God and humanity. Sin is moreover, categorized into serious and less serious offenses. They also agree that contrition, confession and penance are necessary conditions for the forgiveness of sins. Reconciliation again they concur restores the penitent to full communion with the divine and humanity. The article recommends that the Akan concept of original sin which is sketchy must be developed further. It also advocates that integrating the Akan and Catholic concepts of sin and reconciliation in the education of Akan Christians and pastoral agents would be a good enterprise. The paper fills the vacuum created that the Akan has a poor notion of sin and reconciliation. It shows evidence of the Akan concepts of sin and reconciliation, which are comparable to the teachings of the Catholic Church on sin and its removal. Keywords: Sin, Reconciliation, Akan, Catholic

Cybersex and Religion: Intimacy, Resistance, and Negotiation of Islamic Students In Indonesia

This article focused on the teenage generation and religion as the dominant sources of truth in Indonesia, especially Islam. Religion rules become a norm that is upheld and fought for. This article explained how the generation of teenagers in Surabaya who have the same background at Islamic Universities. They used to apply virtual spaces related to sexual activities. Apart from that, this paper also tried to relate their practice to the religious teachings they profess. The informants of this study were students at several universities in Surabaya. Those who become informants were students, consisting of males and females, who openly admitted to having the habit of engaging in sexual activities in cyberspace. This research aimed to explain the practices of resistance and negotiation that occur on religious teachings. The data collection method used was in-depth interviews which focused on how they used virtual space relating to sexuality. There were various entrances to various forms of sexual simulacrums and sexuality within cyberspace, various sexual acts, and the scene that "offer" various sexual activities, such as voyeurism, role-playing, sexual game, cyber-fetishism, and long-distance sexual activity via the internet (teledildonics). In those various activities, men were more open in telling about their activities than women because of strong patriarchal tradition. Besides, they also tried to negotiate the concept of sin in religion. They considered the consequences of sin when they do sexual virtually were heavier than when they did it.

The Notion of Identity in the Philosophy of John Locke: Through the Influences of Religion Ideas

John Locke is one of the key figures in the history of early modern philosophy. He had a great influence on the development of philosophy, which is based on the empirical method, and on the political systems of countries. And even though his works have not been deprived of attention, some questions of his philosophy remain insufficiently disclosed. The author's deals with the religious turn in studies of John Loke. Attention is paid to the role of religion in the philosophy of the thinker. The issue of religious influences on the issue of identity is being discussed. The essence of the term “modern” is highlighted and the criteria according to which John Locke's ideas should be considered modern are indicated. The author notes that some researchers considered John Locke one of the founders of modern philosophy, while others believed that the role of the English philosopher in the development of modern philosophy was overestimated. A characteristic feature of modern philosophy is the emphasis on research and exploration. The author names the identity of John Locke a subjective identity. The main attributes of identity are: reflection, consciousness and memory. Self-reflection and meaningful self-perception allows each person to choose their own way of worshiping God. Consciousness allows a person to evaluate his actions, forms an idea of morality, the concept of sin and so on. The article deals with different meanings of the concept of identity in the religious and secular aspects. The difference - is in memory. Personal responsibility is an integral part of identity. The author of the article notes that we should make a difference between responsibility in religious and political field. Religious responsibility requires observance not only of legal law, but also of moral rules and biblical commandments.

Bible Translation as Contextual Theology

Abstract Lamin Sanneh has influentially observed that translating the Bible is always a seminal act of doing contextual theology. While this has been well demonstrated for the African context, it has rarely been explored for the Asian context. This article examines the Chinese Union Version (cuv) Bible of 1919, a venerated translation that is simply ‘the Bible’ for Chinese Christians. As a result of being mainly the work of Western translators, however, the cuv has lexicalised and sacralised a distinctly western and Protestant understanding of sin as ‘crime’ which has become conventional usage among Chinese Christians. Even so, the linguistic potential for defamiliarising the concept of sin and recasting it in a more contextual manner for Chinese readers already lies within the cuv. Greater attention to the cuv’s concreteness in rendering Old Testament sin-idioms, as opposed to the standard Protestant abstractions, would therefore refresh the voice of Chinese Christianity.

Forgiveness of Sin in the Relation to the Community of Believers

"A large number of casualties in our day and our eroded testimony to the world around us, allows for a lot of grieving but also calls for the reassessment of our understanding of sin, forgiveness and the context of restoration: the community of the forgiven. True, there is around us a growing concern for the problem of sin. However, it is more a face-saving concern vis-a-vis the secularized world and the Church. Unfortunately, it is less a concern compared to God and His righteous standards. How do we define sin? How are we to understand the forgiveness of sin? How do we recognize it, how do we administer it? These are some valid questions that need to be addressed. The purpose behind the present research is not to sift the Bible through our experience to accommodate our generation’s understanding of sin but the other way around: to sift experience through the Bible, expose misunderstanding and thus proceed toward restoration through a way of understanding godliness. The intend is not to fill an ontological gap, but rather address the current situation from a biblical and pastoral perspective, into a situation in which theologians and churches together have lost the ability to talk meaningfully about topics such as sin and the internal workings of the human soul and thus have rendered as irrelevant the meaning of Forgiveness that the Gospel brings. The concern in the following pages is to understand the concept of sin and the experiential dynamics of sin and that of Forgiveness and its personal and corporate experience. Even though a better understanding of Forgiveness may not rid our lives of sins nor make us the best forgivers in the world, it will alert us to what is happening around us and offer insight that can become opportunities. "

Преступление согласно исламскому праву: понятие, соотношение с грехом и классификация

This article appears to be the result of extensive research dedicated to the question of the correct use of the common language while studying Islamic legal culture, and particularly the con-cepts of sin and crime. Consisting of the Quran and Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, Sharia turns out to be the basis for fiqh and Islamic law. The latter is a legal phenomenon implying differ-ent legal concepts such as crimes. As we can see from the legal works analysed, the authors often synonymise the terms ‘sin’ and ‘crime’; at the same time it is strongly recommended to differentiate these terms in the context of Sharia, fiqh and Islamic law. However, in our opinion, it is necessary to distinguish between these two categories, since Sharia that deals only with sins is a set of reli-gious norms not relevant to law and jurisprudence. There is no doubt that Sharia norms can be re-flected in the law, but it is just another evidence of Islamic law to be based on Sharia. Quite the con-trary, crime is a legal concept established by legislation. There are times when Sharia, legislation and legal doctrines coincide, and the same act can be considered both as a sin and as a crime, but it does not mean that they are identified. Thus, the novelty of the study consists in the distinction between the concepts of ‘sin’ and ‘crime’ in Sharia and Islamic Law. Besides, having finished the research in such categories as ‘qisas’, ‘diya’ and ‘tazir’, the author comes to a conclusion that the states which hold themselves out to be ‘Islamic’ ought to include these types in their legislation. Elsewise, such states do not have the right to be called ‘Islamic’.

Atonement: Jewish and Christian Origins.

Atonement: Jewish and Christian Origins.

Addiction, Sin, and the Kierkegaardian Self: On Immanent and Transcendent Goods

The article analyzes the relationship between sin and addiction in the recent work of Sonia Waters and Kent Dunnington, teasing out an apparently irresolvable tension rooted in their respective understandings of what fuels the addictive process. It is argued that the core divergence lies in their differing interpretations of the good sought in addiction, with Waters emphasizing the immanent good of biological and psychosocial homeostasis and Dunnington foregrounding the transcendent good of ecstatic relation with God. The essay proposes to resolve this tension by rethinking the relationship between immanent and transcendent human goods, with reference to Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death. In his definition of the human being as a synthesis, Kierkegaard helps resolve the tension between the immanent and transcendent goods sought in addiction, while his conception of sin as the refusal of selfhood allows us to sharpen our understanding of whether and how it makes sense to frame addiction as participating in sin. It is concluded that addiction may be helpfully framed as a means of avoiding the task of becoming a self, and therefore as a means of remaining in the position of sin.

Frame approach towards studying cultural phenomena

  The object of this research is the religious sphere, apprehended as a fragment of the cultural worldview. The unit, which allows conducting the analysis and studying the structure of cultural worldview alongside other, is the frame of cultural phenomenon. Cultural invariants are referred to as basic frames. The subject of this research is one of the major cultural phenomena, the basic frame of the Christian culture – “sin”. The author focuses on the structure of cultural phenomenon, analyzing its levels, vertex nodes (slots) and optional nodes (terminal slots). The key research method is the frame analysis. The commonly used in sociological, linguistic, and cognitive research frame analysis is a universal tool, effective and adequate to the goals and tasks of culturology. The novelty of this study is define by the lack of works on the frame analysis of cultural phenomena in the context of its relevance for the scientific community. This article is a contribution to the discussion that has unfolded in recent years on the capabilities of frame analysis in culturology. The conducted analysis demonstrates that the frame correlated with the concept of sin has a multi-level structure. The main attributes of the frame are the slots or vertex nodes – quality inherent to human, grounds for punishment, enemy, evil, evil spirit, illness, mistake, and misfortune. The terminal (optional) slots include the atoning sacrifice and forgiveness.  

PEMAKSAAN SEKSUAL DALAM RUMAH TANGGA DILIHAT DARI KEMASLAHATAN DAN KEMUDHARATAN MENURUT HUKUM PIDANA ISLAM

This article focuses on sexual coercion in the household in terms of benefit and harm according to Islamic Penal Law, in Islam in a legal marriage we need to realize that sex is not an erroneous thing in Islamic law but a recommended routine. However, when you want to have a relationship, don't take paths that are not pleased by Allah, meaning by force, violence but in a gentle and wise way that was encouraged by the Prophet Muhammad SAW. For the sake of the procreation of the creation of the children of Adam, it is tracing the activity of sexual relations and there is no concept of sin placed on it that sexual relations are considered as interests or desires between husband and wife. In Law No. 23 of 2004, it is wisely accommodated for perpetrators of forced sexual relations as well as those regulated by imprisonment and civil penalties as stipulated in Article 8 for perpetrators of forcing sexual relations while in Islamic criminal law, coercion of sex in the household punishment for the perpetrator of the finger of ta'zir