Gravity of sin : Augustine, Luther and Barth on ’homo incurvatus in se’

Introduction
 1. Augustine's inward turn: An ambiguous beginning
 Love makes the city
 The goodness of the garden
 Participation and relationality
 Civic foundations
 What happened? The beginning of sin
 Falsehood
 Pride
 Isolation
 Falling into slavery
 The call to humility
 Augustine's ambiguous inwardness in The Trinity
 A conclusion
 2. Luther's radical and religious invurvature. Setting the task
 Simus iustus et peccator
 Fuel to the fire: The persistence of the fomes
 Copernicux Redux
 The logic of person and works
 Totus homo? The postures of death and spirit
 Incurvatus in se as ignorance: The critique of natural understanding
 Using, enjoying: Incurvatus in se as egoism
 Homo religiosus as Homo incurvatus in se
 The violation of vocation: Transgressing the limits of calling
 Conclusion: Augustine versus Luther?
 3. (How) Do women sin? Daphne Hampson and the Feminist critique of Luther
 Introduction
 Hampson's critique of Luther on sin, incurvatus in se and the self
 Hampson's alternative
 Transition: Key questions
 Problems with a gendered approach to sin
 Hampson's account of sin per se and the controlling factor of continuity
 On the explanatory sufficiency of incurvatus in se
 4. Broadening the range of the metaphor: Barth's threefold description of sin
 Introduction
 A brief apology for paradigms
 Sin Christologically defined
 Humanity through a Christological lens: A closer look
 Sin as pride
 Sin as falsehood
 Sin as sloth
 Hampson and Barth: A tale of two sloths
 Conclusion
 Coda
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