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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... idea of substitution is present in each of these concepts . The elements that explain how that substitution works in each of these cases are , respectively , 1. A combined judicial - commercial - moral idea : Sin incurs judicial guilt ...
Stephen Finlan. idea of " Christ dying for our sins " was not the emphasis of the Jerusalem church , but before long it became the dominant teaching in the Gentile churches . At several key points in Christian history certain theologians ...
... idea that sin did damage to God's honor and that Christ's death was a " recompense for the injury . " They are no ... ideas of Jesus ' death as a payoff , a sacrifice , a punishment - bearing , for " Jesus took the hit for me " ; " Jesus ...
... idea of 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 ...
... idea of God's anger being soothed with a food payment is the understanding in parts of Genesis ( J , the Yahwist author ) , Samuel , and Kings . But the Pentateuchal author / redactor called " P " ( for priestly ) does not care for the idea ...
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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 |