What are today’s boundaries between right and wrong?

Older models of sin as offending or disobeying God depend on an image of God that many people find unbelievable or repugnant. But talking about sin or wrongdoing is a way of naming the boundaries we want to set in our lives. It helps us to name the places which – in our better moments – we do not want to go and do not want the society we live in to take us.

The wide variety of contributors to this book challenge the reader to confront some deeply held attitudes and motivations that are present in our lives and they attempt to articulate as clearly as possible the varied contemporary understandings of sin.