Sin in Contemporary North American Literature

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Two working assumptions form this course. First, sin is a theological concept with which even beginning divinity students have ample experience. Second, narrative is helpful for engaging the original ways sin shapes individual human lives and particular communities. This course will consider sin, exploring error, evil, and suffering alongside truth, hope, and healing in six different stories. Authors have narrated sin as social and as personal in mainstream, North American storytelling—as a matter of lies writ large and as a result of individual choice