Sin and Evil: Moral Values in Literature

A needed and timely book on sin and evil, and how they have been discussed and represented in Western literature from antiquity to the present day

The confusion of sin and evil, or religious and moral transgression, is the subject of Ronald Paulson’s latest book. He calls attention to the important distinction between sin and Evil (with a capital E) that in our times is largely ignored, and to the further confusion caused by the term “moral values.” Ranging widely through the history of Wes...