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Sunday Feature: The Idea of Sin

Sunday Feature: The Idea of Sin: Episode 3: The Road to Redemption

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Episode 3: The Road to Redemption

The Idea of Sin

The Road to Redemption

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, The Idea of Sin, The Road to Redemption

The Rev Richard Coles focuses on the idea of redemption in sacred and secular societies.

The Rev Richard Coles concludes and exploration of sin and atonement, focusing on the idea of redemption in sacred and secular societies.

The Reverend Richard Coles visits Lincoln Cathedral, the focus of Medieval pilgrimage, to begin the last of his series exploring contemporary and historical ideas about sin. Having looked at the central place Temptation still has for many in both religious and secular societies the attention now swings to methods of redemption, purification and the goodness that is defined only by its counter to the idea of sin.

Bathing in the Ganges, Islamic Pilgrimage and the Hajj and Christian pilgrimage are all constructed around notions of cleansing and redemption. But Richard also hears from figures from the environmental movement who suggest that attitudes and actions to our natural world might also be construed in terms which resonate with the conventional spiritual ideas of redemption.

Producer: Tom Alban.

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The Rev Richard Coles discusses the ideas of sin and atonement through the centuries

The Rev Richard Coles discusses the ideas of sin and atonement through the centuries, from the dawn of ethics to the full force of Judeo-Christian damnation and salvation

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