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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... Innocent Blood 82 4.1B Is Healing Power in the Cross ? 85 4.2A Postmodernist Orthodox Views 88 Boersma : God Must Be Violent 88 Milbank : Atonement as Forgiveness 90 4.2B Postmodern Cynicism 95 4.3 Options on Forgiveness and Wrath 96 ...
... innocent suffering is legal tender . Innocent suffering has excess power , transferable power . 2. A combined judicial - scapegoat idea : Sin arouses God's wrath ; Jesus agrees to become the scapegoat who will receive the outpouring of ...
... innocent victim in place of the guilty . Even more difficult to accept is the notion of God ( or " justice " ) being paid off . Perhaps these metaphors were not meant to be taken as literally as theologians have taken them . More ...
... innocent son . What kind of " father " would make forgiveness conditional upon such an act ? Have we failed to appreciate the pro- foundly ethical and intimate implications of calling God " father , " or is this an abusive and fear ...
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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 |