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I keep coming back to the basic insight that there are two main forms of sin.

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The other is pursuit of one's own righteousness by obedience to the law -- taking law—taking "law" in the broad sense of consuetudinary norms of all kinds understood to be divine demands that require to be satisfied if one is be accepted of God.

This basic insight connects not only with Bultmann's analysis of the two forms of sin -- selfsin—self-love and self-righteousness -- but —but also with H. R. Niebuhr's analysis of the two forms of faith alternative to radical monotheism. It also connects with what Gamwell has to say about the two main ideologies -- libertarianism and conservativism – that ideologies—libertarianism and conservativism—that have so dominated American public thinking; notwithstanding the very different understanding of the individual-in-community upheld and handed down by Christian faith.

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