Reconsidering Sin & Salvation Adult Education Class

Reconsidering Sin and Salvation taught by Dr. Scott MacDougall, March 6-27 @10:10 on Zoom (click here) or in-person, in the Common Room. Contemporary Christianity in the United States often thinks of sin and salvation in one of two ways: it makes them the absolute center of theology and practice, or it downplays them almost to the point of being invisible. What would happen, though, if we reconsidered sin and salvation? That is, what difference might it make if we thought about them more robustly again in places where they have slipped from view, on the one hand, and if we thought about them differently in places where they are almost the sole focus of attention, on the other?   

In this four-part Lenten series, we will reconsider sin and salvation in both of these senses of the word. 

• March 6th – “Self and Society” — we will take a theological look at what it means to be a human being in our place and time. 
• March 13th – “Sin” – we will use that view of the human condition as a starting point for exploring what the concept of sin does and does not mean. 
• March 20th – “Salvation” – we will clarify what it means to say that God overcomes sin, and this will allow us to think together about how this happens.
• March 27th – “Sanctification” – we will address what all of this means in terms of Christian life and practice.