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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... become a lightning rod for the condemnation and wrath of God , and by so doing he 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 ...
... become the scapegoat who will receive the outpouring of that wrath , and in his death he bears away the sin and its penalty as the goat bore away the sins of the community . Actually , the judicial element is somewhat subdued because it ...
... become the most important sacrifices . ( See the next subsection . ) " Propitiation " is a term often used by scholars to designate this busi- ness of appeasing someone who is angry . Propitiating the deity was probably the original ...
... become righteous and blameless ; they are able to discern and do the will of God ( Phil 1 : 9-10 ; Col 1 : 9 , 22 ; 3 : 10 ; ' 2 Cor 5:17 , 21 ; Rom 12 : 2 ) . Such character renewal , unfortunately , lies largely outside the scope of ...
... become the righteousness of God . " Christ is made sin ( hamartian epoiesen ) , while the community " becomes righteousness . " This is an expulsion image with its characteristic rever- sal of conditions ; there is an ailment that is ...
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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 |