The Reformers, Hall continues, reclaimed a radical sense of sin: “They saw that sin meant disobedience, rebellion, refusal, turning away. In short, they saw it as a relational term . . . the foundational relationship of human life — our relation with God — is broken; and this brokenness shows up in all our other relations. . . . Whether we should even speak of ‘sins’ (plural) is questionable; but if we do, we should understand that they are consequences of what is wrong, not its causes.”3
