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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... Romans 18 Scapegoat : The Expulsion of Sin 22 Blending Redemption and Expulsion 24 2.2 The Conflation of Metaphors 25 Penal Substitution 27 Multiplicity of Images 28 Inducement in the Sacrificial Metaphor 30 Taking Paul too Literally 32 ...
... John McLean ( New York : Bantam Books , 1960 ) 352 . 24 Iph . aul . 1553-55 ; from Hadas and McLean , Ten Plays , 352 . When the Romans adapt this idea it is generally in The Roots of Atonement 15 Cultic Labels for Noble Death.
... Romans 3:25 and 1 Timothy 2 : 6 , where the same ( haimati , hilasterion ) or similar ( antilytron ) words occur . Underlying all this heroism and self - sacrifice is the anger and violence of God ( " he disciplines us with calamities ...
... Romans Paul's most important and developed theological statement is pre- sented in the letter to the Romans . The first three chapters offer a lengthy description of humanity's problem — being hopelessly enslaved to sin . He finally ...
... Romans 3 : 24-26 is that believers are justi- fied ( cf. 4:25 ; 5 : 9 ; 8 : 1 , 30 ) . Justification literally means being " declared just " or " made just . " In the context of the trial of the soul before God it means acquittal ...
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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 |