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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... biblical studies and Christian doctrine we are referring to concepts of the saving power of the death of Jesus developed in the early Greek - speaking churches and developed further over the centuries in works written in Latin and other ...
... biblical images of salvation . Further , these concepts of atonement were detached from the vitality of personal religious experience and turned into dogmas , taking on a life of their own . For most Christians the notion of ...
... biblical passages by revisiting them ? How did atonement ideas come to play such an important role , and what do we make of them now ? These are questions I will address in the course of this work . Further , there is much to be gained ...
... biblical redactors . Cleansing Sacrifice - as - food - payment is not the end of the story , of course . Even within the Pentateuch we see what looks like an ongoing argument about the purpose of sacrifice . The naturalistic idea of ...
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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 |