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Would anyone like to recommend a good book on sin? By this I mean a book about what sin is and how it affects us and our walk with God.

Fire away, y'all

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I took hamartiology for one semester in Bible college and all we had was a syllabus and the professor's notes.

**If I were teaching a course on hamartiology I would require as reading "The Oath" by Frank Peretti. Although, this is a fictional text it brings out many aspects of sin and the results of sin. When I finished it I thought what a great book to define sin and its various facets.

I looked in my file on articles about sin (hamartiology). There is a article called "Overcoming sin" in Newsweek, May 21, 2001; in the May/June issue of Israel My Glory, there is an article called "The Final rebellion." In addition, in Israel My Glory, July/August 2002 there are several articles on "The Origin and fall of Satan. In Bibliotheca Sacra, July-Sept. 2000 there is an article "Biology, Homosexuality, and the biblical doctrine of sin." If you go to RZIM (Ravi Zacharias international ministries, you will find a number of lectures on sin and total depravity - July and August 2000. In Israel My Glory, there is an article "Solving the sin problem," March/April 2007. In the Princeton Review vol. 42, issue 2 (University of Michigan: humanities text initiative) there is an article called "The Relation of Adam's first sin to the fall of the race."

**Christianity Today, Mar. 2010 as an article "The Evolution of Sin," which is a review of a book by Gary Anderson, entitled "Sin: a history." There is an article in Bibliotheca Sacra, Jan. 1973, by William K. Harrison called "The Origin of Sin." I have not read this book but the author was interviewed by CT in the article I just mentioned.

You may want to go to bible.org and piece together a number of articles.

Marguerite Shuster has some very good insights presented in The Fall and Sin: What We Have Become as Sinners, Wm. B. Eerdman's Publishing, 2004.

Of the recent works I've read, I think Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. has the best work titled, Not the Way it's Supposed to Be: A Brevery of Sin, Wm. B. Eerdman's Publishing, 1995.

Jonathan Edwards has a classic work titled, The Origen of Sin which is a challenging read.

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I was going to mention Shuster but I see Randy beat me to it. Another helpful volume is "Original Sin" by Henri Blocher though he does not cover all the ground of Shuster. Randy's other recommendations are helpful as well.

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Overcoming Sin and Temptation, a compendium of three books by John Owen including Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, Of Temptation: The Nature and Power of It, and Indwelling Sin. http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Sin-Te ... ion+of+sin
I have only read Mortification, but have had the other two on my reading list for some time. If you are not familiar with Owen, he was a 17th century English puritan. Each of these is available for free on the internet, but bound together in the compendium will cost as much as any other softcover book of recent vintage.

Regards.

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Thanks, all....keep those suggestions coming!

Whatever happened to Sin? By Dr Karl menninger...

What do you guys think of:

With Willful Intent: A Theology of Sin by David I. Smith
The Evil of Evils by Jeremiah Burroughs

This forum is really helpful...good books on Hamartiology are hard to find.

I am personally not familiar with either of those volumes, but David Smith taught for a number of years where I now teach in Canada. Likely it is a helpful volume, but without reading it I just cannot say.

You might also note Bernard Ramm's Offense to Reason: A Theology of Sin (Regent College, 2000) who was the author of the widely received volume Protestant Biblical Interpretation (Baker, 1970; revised 1980).

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i'm stating the obvious but hey...a commentary on the Psalms may prove beneficial -- Ps. 51 tells is like it is...

Pastorjohn:

You mentioned a David I. Smith - is this the same David Smith who wrote "The life and letters of St. Paul? If it is he did a great job on the book I just mentioned but I have not read anything else by him but I was very impressed with his scholarship. In his book on Paul it just gives his name David Smith but no middle initial. David Smith, was born around 1866, he was a 19th century Presbyterian minister. I found his scholarship excellent. If this is the same David Smith as you mentioned I am sure he did a good job on the book you mentioned.

It isn't, GaryM. He is the former Vice President for Academics and Professor of Christian Theology at Providence Theological Seminary. He has written several other works, the most significant of which is: A Contemporary Handbook of Theology (Baker, 2001). He was also not born until 1943 (HERE is his brief Bio at Amazon with the other books he has written [obviously excluding the MANY journal articles and other contributions he has made to scholarship]).

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Thank you Antipater.