The eighth Christ on Campus Initiative (CCI) essay is now available: Cornelius Plantinga Jr., “Sin: Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be” (23-page PDF | HTML).
Cornelius Plantinga (Wikipedia entry) is president and professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995).
I shared this essay with my friend Hans Madueme, a medical doctor and fellow PhD candidate at TEDS who is writing his dissertation on the doctrine of sin. Hans replied,
Thanks so much for letting me read this draft. Plantinga’s essay is simply masterful. That’s all I have to say—masterful. It’s basically a synopsis of his book, which I have read several times, but because he has condensed it here, to its purest essentials, it has all the book’s strengths without any of its few weaknesses.
The essay has seven divisions:
- Shalom
- Vandalism of Shalom
- The Human Race “Has a Habit” Where Sin Is Concerned
- Parasite
- Corruption
- Who’s to Blame?
- The Bottom Line
Plantinga’s annotated bibliography includes five books:
- Alan Jacobs. Original Sin: A Cultural History. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
- Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung. Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and their Remedies. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2009.
- C. S. Lewis. The Great Divorce. Repr., San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.
- ———. The Screwtape Letters. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco: 2001. (Cf. my review of a recent dramatization of this classic.)
- Cornelius Plantinga Jr. Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
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