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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... Cultic Labels for Noble Death 15 Chapter 2 : Paul's Cultic Metaphors 18 2.1 Atonement in Romans 18 Scapegoat : The Expulsion of Sin 22 Blending Redemption and Expulsion 24 2.2 The Conflation of Metaphors 25 Penal Substitution 27 ...
... cultic practice that communicates the values and reinforces the social boundaries of the group . The centerpiece of the Jewish cult was animal sacrifice , which was used to cleanse impurity , some of which was believed to be caused by ...
... cultic sacrificial - moral idea : Here the death fits into a ritual pattern . The physical purity of a spotless animal is equated with the spiritual purity of the righteous Messiah . Because of his purity status the Messiah's death has ...
... cultic metaphysics as long as there is only one Temple ( in Jerusalem ) . Payment and Aversion The fundamental term for purging or cleansing , kipper , was not an exclusively sacrificial term , but it was inextricably linked to the idea ...
... cultic image is that of the expulsion ritual , of which the best known is the scapegoat in the Hebrew cult . Scapegoat ritual is to be distinguished from sacrifice , even though the former took place at the same time as the most ...
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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 |