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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... actually carried away the sin and its associated penalty ; 3. The sacrifices and other cleansing rituals of the OT cult all prefigured and pointed at the Messiah's self - sacrificial death , but his was the only death that really ...
... Actually , the judicial element is somewhat subdued because it is the personal wrath of God that is emphasized . 3. A combined cultic sacrificial - moral idea : Here the death fits into a ritual pattern . The physical purity of a ...
... Actually a limited penalty is welcomed , since paying it mollifies the deity's wrath . The alternative is death . Numinous awe and danger surround ritual objects : Nadab and Abihu offer up " unauthorized coals " 1 and are blasted by the ...
... actually feeding the god with the smoke of the burning animal , strongly attested in the first four books of the Pentateuch.2 The priests ' job is to " offer the Lord's offerings by fire , the food of their God . . . the food of your ...
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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 |