Biblical liberation addresses structural sin, not only individual sins.

Evidence

In his first public sermon, Jesus does not emphasize the forgiveness of my individual sins. Instead, he points to how his project is liberating all of humanity from our enslavement to sin, including the ways sin is baked into the structures of our common life and harms our neighbors. We, like Jesus, cannot read the words of Isaiah and other prophets honestly and come away thinking God cares more about our personal salvation than how we treat other people, including through the social structures that oppress them. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 84

Categorization

• XREF: Builds toward the book’s central argument that American prosperity gospel misreads scripture; relevant to the reader’s work on religion-and-structure. — connects to: Original sin is the fact of existing among others. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1009; Salvation in Christian tradition is communal, not merely personal — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 88; Theological appeals to total human sinfulness can justify preserving white supremacist honors — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 182 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Theological appeals to total human sinfulness can justify preserving white supremacist honors #exemplifies (0.85) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 182
• Slave Bibles excised liberation passages while keeping obedience commands #exemplifies (0.84) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 225
• Salvation in Christian tradition is communal, not merely personal #corroborates (0.82) — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 88
• Moral healing requires facing a community’s past sins directly #corroborates (0.80) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 176
• Original sin is the fact of existing among others. #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1009
• Baptist women theologians framed motherhood as historical agency toward liberation. #exemplifies (0.73) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 600
• Sanctifying harmful means as worthy removes guilt and even elicits pride #expands (0.72)