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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... Cleansing 10 Payment and Aversion 11 1.3 The Scapegoat Ritual 13 1.4 Internalization or Spiritualization 14 1.5 Cultic Labels for Noble Death 15 Chapter 2 : Paul's Cultic Metaphors 18 2.1 Atonement in Romans 18 Scapegoat : The Expulsion ...
... 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 brought about the cleansing of conscience that the cult was thought to accomplish . 3 Timothy ...
... cleansing , the sin offering and guilt offering 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 ...
... cleansing or purging impurity that is literal , not metaphorical , and poses a spiritual threat to the community . Sacrifice , for P , is not meant for ap- peasement but for obtaining a spiritually cleansing substance : blood . The ...
... cleansing for P ( the Priestly author ) , whose ideol- ogy dominates Second Temple practice . H ( for " Holiness Code " ) com- bines these views ( see below ) . The D ( Deuteronomist ) author is mainly concerned with the question 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 |