Sin

Lewis B. Smedes --Fuller Theological Seminary "Ted Peters's superb study of radical evil, soaked to the skin in Bible and theology, proves the underworld of human iniquity like a plumber poking about for leaks in a crawl space. It peels the cover off the evil that poses as banality in American culture, resists smartly the fatal confusion of genetic destiny with free surrender to the evil one, and adds a book-size study of Satanism, anti-Satanism, and anti-anti-Satanism, being all the while as tough as a hanging judge on moral wimps who cover their sin with a patina of self-esteem. Peters's book tells us just about everything we need to know about the evil that so satanically bedevils both our cloaked souls and our naked society." Douglas John Hall --McGill University "Despite its awesome reality in public and private life, sin is a misunderstood and unpopular theme in North American churches and society today. Peters's book goes a long way toward correcting that situation. He writes forcefully and with an insider's awareness of the context he addresses. He rescues sin from its captivity by sex and puts it back where it belongs -- at the center of our lives and at the heart of God's redeeming grace!"