The emergence of sin : the cosmic tyrant in Romans

Content: Cover
 The Emergence of Sin
 Copyright
 Dedication
 Contents
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction
 1. s/​Sin: The Genealogy of a Person(ification)
 Sin Came Through Sinning: Bultmannian Reduction
 Standing Under Definite Lordship: Käsemannian Dualism
 Sinful Institutions: Liberationist Emergence?
 Conclusions
 2. Emergence
 Emergent Properties
 Dualisms, Mental, and Vital
 Reduction
 Emergentism as a Trans-​Ordinal Theory
 A Brief History of Emergence Theory
 The Generative Dialectic: Supervenience and Downward Causation
 The Problem of Downward Causation
 Downward Causation in Chemistry Downward Causation in BiologyDownward Causation in Sociology
 Case Study: Racism
 Conclusions
 3. The Emergence of Persons Great and Small
 An Emergent Ontology of Human Persons
 The Self Out of Bounds
 The Social Self: Superorganisms and Group Minds
 Organisms, Superorganisms, and Biological Relativity of Scale
 Group Minds
 Conclusions
 Sin as a Mythological Person: A Superorganism with a Group Mind
 4. An Emergent Account of Sin in Romans
 The Emergence of the Cosmic Power, Sin
 The Body of Sin
 The Dominion of Sin
 Race, the Law, and the Dominion of Sin
 Law and the Dominion of Sin The Transmission of SinConclusions
 5. Sin, Gender, and Empire
 Ancient Ideology of Self-​Mastery
 Desire and the Passions vs. the Mind in Romans
 The Emergence of the Goddess Roma
 Roma\'s Gender Trouble
 Hamartia as Tribadic Roma
 The Body of Christ and the Obedience of Faith
 Conclusions
 Conclusions
 Modern-​Day Mythological Persons?
 Toward an Emergent Hamartiology
 Confronting Youth Violence: A Personal Story and Modest Ecumenical Hope
 Notes
 References
 Index