Nelson (religion, Thiel College, Pennsylvania) is in favor of sin, he says: he believes that invoking the language of sin to account for the misery and evil experienced in the world bears in its wake both explanatory force and reason for hope that other vocabularies do not and cannot offer. He discusses the good news about sin; approaches to sin in the Bible; original sin and the legacy of Augustine; sin-nonyms estrangement, isolation, rebellion, and self-justification; and the social sins of relationity and the formation of the sinful self, and structures of oppression. T&T Clark is an imprint of Continuum. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)