Endnotes
1This is especially true of the prophet Isaiah in chapters 2, 11, 32, 42, 60, and 65.
2Augustine, Confessions (trans. and with an introduction by Henry Chadwick; New York: Oxford, 1992), 3 (1.1.1).
3Nicholas Wolterstorff, “Abraham Kuyper on Christian Learning” (New Haven: unpublished, 1997), 15–17.
4Richard Lewontin, “Billions and Billions of Demons,” The New York Review of Books (January 7, 1997): 31.
5This judgment stitches together six days of creation in Genesis 1.
6Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea (London: Everyman, 1995), 216.
7Patrick McCormick, Sin as Addiction (New York: Paulist, 1989), 152.
8Garry Wills, Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987), 384.
9See Stephen Westerholm, Israel’s Law and the Church’s Faith (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988), 160.
10C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (repr., New York: Macmillan, 1977), 49.
11Augustine, Confessions, 3.7.12.
12Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire (Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1983), 307–8.
13Lewis, Mere Christianity, 53.
14Augustine, On the Merits and Remission of Sins, 2.36.22: “What is called ‘sin’ dwelling in our members is sin in this way: that it becomes the punishment of sin.” (I owe this reference and translation to Professor Mark F. Williams.)
15Calvin, Institutes, 1:43–45 (1.3.1–2), 1:272–73 (2.2.13–14), 1:292–93 (2.3.3).
16Geoffrey W. Bromiley, “Sin,”in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ed. Geoffrey W. Bromiley; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988), 4:522.
17Merold Westphal, Suspicion and Faith (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993), 13, 16–17.
18Martin Buber, Between Man and Man, quoted in Westphal, Suspicion and Faith, 25.
19Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (2 vols.; New York: Scribner’s, 1964), 1:182.
20Ibid., 1:183–86.
21Augustine, The City of God 14.13. Like Scripture writers, Augustine thinks of the human heart not just as the seat of emotion but also as the governing center of a human being.
22Jack Beatty, “A Call to Order: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Evasion,” Atlantic Monthly (August 1993): 18.
23William Muehl, Why Preach? Why Listen? (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986), 65.