Offense To Reason

This book takes as its main thesis: (1) the Christian doctrine of sin is offensive to the reason and repelled by the intelligentsia and academia; (2) without this doctrine of sin much of human life and history remains forever opaque; (3) with it a shaft of light is cast upon personal existence, social existence, and the course of history, giving clarity that nothing else in the religions, nor the philosophies, of the world can provide.

This masterful study -- broad-ranging, judicious and accessible -- clarifies the multidimensional nature of sin by exploring theological, philosophical and sociological facets, while it shows how Christian theology provides the most lucid, helpful understanding of this universal problem and the key to healing sin's disastrous effect upon the whole of our history.

Taking into consideration the most significant interpretations of sin and depravity offered by scholars in a variety of disciplines from existential literature to Freudian psychology to sociobiology, Offense to Reason defends the Christian theology of sin, echoed in all religions and in many secular versions of human existence, as essential for understanding humanity's misfortune in a world alienated from its maker.