Making Burning the Books has, Alinah says, been hugely helpful in coming to terms with their situation – not only in forcing her, and those who participate in the work, to face up to an issue that is so often taboo; but in inspiring her to think about debt as a moral question, one bound up with ideas of sin.
It's a story that has much to say about women and men and the shifty ideas of sin.
And Jane, like both Mrs. Copperfield and Miss Goering, was consumed by the idea of sin.
Even in these orthodox paintings, you sense the anguish that the idea of sin has caused Christians down the ages.
If you like the idea of "sin" taxes as a way for the government to raise revenue, be aware that Alexander Hamilton got there first.
Sex is never simple, which is why we need stories about it; these days, however, the idea of sin has, for the most part, been removed from those stories — and with it has gone the thrill of trespass.
The idea of sin cannot evolve from purely human origins.
He found that the idea of morality in Ancient Greece is more relevant for making judgments about responsibility for the Holocaust than the Judeo-Christian approach, wherein the idea of sin can be blurred by the concepts such as intentional sin, unintentional sin, sinning by thought, or sinning by deed.
The American people are as devoted to the idea of sin and its punishment as they are to making money--and fighting drugs is nearly as big a business as pushing them.
Although there have been many studies that negate the Christianization of those who were enslaved, there are those who saw the ritual of baptism as an empowerment tool that shaped the universal idea of sin, notwithstanding the derogatory mark whites attributed to skin color using Genesis 4 15 "there was a mark that God put on Cain after he killed his brother Abel".
We propose an Intersectional Theology that leaves no one out, that leaves no one's experience unconsidered in exploring and expanding our ideas of God, sin, redemption, and the church, and that leaves no one's oppression unchallenged and no system of oppression intact.
