Options on Atonement in Christian ThoughtLiturgical Press, 2007 - 147 pagini In his previous book, Problems with Atonement, Stephen Finlan compellingly argues that the doctrine of atonement has been more a stumbling block to a true understanding of the relationship between God and humanity than a genuine explanation of how we relate to God and God to us. Options on Atonement reprises these arguments briefly, then looks more closely at the solutions to the problem offered by a variety of modern interpreters. Finlan's focus in this volume is on revelation, on the gradual human absorption of and interpretation of revelation received from God, the maturing of human cultures, and especially the light shed by modern family systems psychology. At a time when public debates rage over the notion of evolution in the natural world, this book asserts that our understanding of divine revelation is likewise subject to evolution. If religion itself does not evolve, the author asserts, we are left only with an unsatisfactory choice: to remain mired in the past, or to repudiate all that is past, including our Scriptures. Will that be our choice? Or can we resolve to examine our traditions, including that of the atonement, in the light of new knowledge? Stephen Finlan chooses to do just that. |
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... , or a redemption- purchasing . Similar ideas are common in several other NT epistles and in Revelation , yet they are almost completely absent from the gospels . The idea of " Christ dying for our sins " was Introduction 3.
Stephen Finlan. idea of " Christ dying for our sins " was not the emphasis of the Jerusalem church , but before long it became the dominant teaching in the Gentile churches . At several key points in Christian history certain theologians ...
... Christ's death was a " recompense for the injury . " They are no longer convinced by Calvin's notion that " He by his death purchased life for us " as " a payment or compensation which acquits us from guilt . " 6 Such theology may ...
... Christ's sacrifice is a " fragrant offering " in the nostrils of God . Of course , in Ephesians this is metaphoric , but such metaphor rests on and reinterprets primitive beliefs . Hebrew sacrifice had more than one purpose and was ...
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After Paul | 43 |
Defenses of Atonement | 70 |
1B Is Healing Power in the Cross? | 85 |
2B Postmodern Cynicism | 95 |
Critiques of Atonement | 103 |
Compassion Not Atonement | 109 |
2B The Slide into AntiBiblicism | 111 |
A Theory of Revelation and Evolution | 120 |
Bibliography | 133 |
Index of Modern Authors | 139 |