This article uses the work of Ignacio Ellacuría to articulate a concept of sin in light
of the literature on how neoliberalism shapes us into homo oeconomicus. Ellacuría
describes sin as the stifling of the theologal dimension of historical reality; it rejects
the fundamental affirmation that all things “have been formed according to the triune
life and refer essentially to that life.” Under neoliberalism, such a concept of sin is
hollowed out, as transgressions are always and only against the market: The always
elusive economic market is the only victim of history. The article ends with how the
denunciation of sin has functioned as a critique of market logics on the southern US
border.