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Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation

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In Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to a cluster of words that incessantly cause us discomfort and have widely fallen into neglect: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation. She asks, “Why, then, must we speak of sin anymore? The only reason I will be able to think of is because we consider that God means to redeem the world through us.

“Abandoning the language of sin will not make sin go away. Human beings will continue to experience alienation, deformation, damnation and death it doesn’t matter what we call them. Abandoning the language will simply leave us speechless before them, and increase our denial of their presence in our lives. Paradoxically, it is going to also weaken the language of grace, since the full affect of forgiveness cannot be felt with the exception of the full affect of what has been forgiven.”

Contrary to the prevailing view, Taylor calls sin “a helpful, hopeful word.” Naming our sins, she contends, enables us to move from “guilt to grace.” In recovering this “lost language of salvation” in our worship and in the fabric of our individual lives, we have a chance to “take part in the divine work of redemption.”

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