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About the Author
Matthew Croasmun is Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Life Worth Living Program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Lecturer of Divinity and Humanities at Yale University. He completed his Ph.D. in Religious Studies (New Testament) at Yale in 2014 and was a recipient of the 2015 Manfred Lautenschlager Award for Theological Promise for his dissertation, "The Body of Sin: An Emergent Account of Sin as a Cosmic Power in Romans 5-8."
Reviews
A striking study, then, and well worth reading for an original and stimulating exposition of Romans. Those interested in the philosophical questions of emergentism will find it fascinating and provocative and themselves, on closing the book, with many more questions that they wish to ask. * Euan Alexander Grant, The Emergence of Sin *
...highly theoretical... * Jeffrey S. Siker, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly *
In one of the most innovative and compelling books on Paul to be published in years, The Emergence of Sin: The Cosmic Tyrant in Romans, Croasmun zeroes in on one of Paul's most puzzling and alienating concepts: his portrayal of sin-or, perhaps better, "Sin"-as a kind of mythic god, a personal force or energy that nefariously thwarts divine purposes and enslaves unsuspecting humans. * Wesley Hill, associate professor of New Testament at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, Marginalia Review of Books *
[A] fantastic new book...The singular contribution of The Emergence of Sin is Croasmun's lengthy, accessible and paradigm-altering proposal that sin by the individual, Sin as a cosmological presence and Sin as a systemic can be explained best by emergence theory. * Scot McKnight, Patheos *
The book is replete with his assiduous engagements with several important figures in modern emergentism, including Philip Clayton and Andy Clark. The natural corollary to this is that Christian theological discourse (in this case what he calls 'an emergent hamartiology') can be a potentially fruitful interlocutor for many non-theological disciplines... I have benefited much from Croasmun's work, and suspect that many others will find this book helpful as well. * Sang-il Kim, Reading Religion *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190277987
Author Matthew Croasmun
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 640g
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 236mm * 33mm