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Volume 51, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0165-4322
  • E-ISSN: 3050-9947

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Abstract

In this essay the author proposes that a liberational theological perspective on sin can help to speak theologically about responsibility for structural injustice. According to the theology of sin by Dorothee Sölle and the theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez, sin takes place in concrete cases of injustice. This differs from a more traditional perspective, in which sin is solely located in the individual. From the latter perspective, liberation means a change of inner dispositions. From a liberational theological perspective, liberation requires a change of socio-historical reality. In the context of the church in the Netherlands, this theology of structural sin can help to speak of responsibility for structural injustice. By recognizing injustice as sin, it demands a response. It requires something from our practice of faith and morality.

© Eline van der Kaaden
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Keyword(s): activism; liberation theology; structural sin
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