“If sin is framed in terms of shame, however, then a legal solution to something as deep and existential as shame will be inappropriate.” Would you agree with this? Disagree? Or would you want to qualify it a bit?
I read this line in Robin Stockitt’s Restoring the Shamed: Towards a Theology of Shame (Cascade Books, 2012).
Later, he adds, “If this is how our status before God is depicted then the “solution” to our damaged status must turn around questions that deal with either the punishment or the remission of that guilt. It is an entirely logical chain of reasoning, yet one is left with the impression of a cosmos that is constructed around a cold, mathematical system of legal exchange,” (Kindle Locations 856–59).
Any thoughts?
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