This book explores how Catholics should speak about sin and grace in a world where structural injustice holds sway causing harm and violence to both people and planet. Bray brings diverse voices into creative dialogue to explore why unjust social situations can properly be called sin from a Catholic theological perspective, and how this sin can be understood to impact one's agency, freedom, and historical condition vis-a-vis God. Discussing disparate thinkers such as John Paul II, Judith Butler, Thomas Aquinas, and key Latin American liberation theologians, Bray deepens and constructively develops the Catholic understanding of social sin. She argues that the language of social sin presents us with an idea more theologically profound than just the identification of structural injustice; it depicts the power of collective human sinfulness to shape our lives and environments in ways which harm our relations with God, one another, and the rest of the created world.

By drawing on diverse thinkers from both within and outside of the Catholic tradition, Charlotte Bray examines what sin is and how it impacts human life.

About the Author
Charlotte Bray is the Lead Trustee for Racial Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion on the Board of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, UK.

Reviews
This book makes a significant contribution to filling a serious gap in recent Catholic scholarship: the need for a mature, creative and wide-ranging theological discussion of social sin, a debate that has remained a source of unreconciled difficulty in Catholic teaching since the intense debates at the end of the last century. Bray's book is a gift to those wishing to move those debates forwards. * Anna Rowlands, Durham University, UK *



Book Information
ISBN 9780567714879
Author Dr Charlotte Bray
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint T.& T.Clark Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC