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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... interpret the other . Underlying all the metaphors is the notion that Jesus died as a martyr . The Greeks called this kind of death a " noble death . " This is not a meta- phor , since noble death / martyrdom always refers to the ...
... interpretations : he died heroically ; more than that , he died as a penal substitute ; beyond that , he won something for me through that death ; he took on something and carried it away . This combines the imagery of the battlefield ...
... interpreted by the sacred technicians , the priests . Ritual assumes a highly structured universe and supports a highly structured society . Everyone is expected to conform to certain purity codes and procedures , but the priests are ...
... Interpretation ( Louisville : Westminster John Knox , 2002 ) 128-29 . 8 Jacob Milgrom , " The Priestly Laws of Sancta Contamination , " in Michael Fishbane and Emanuel Tov , eds . , " Sha'arei Talmon " : Studies in the Bible , Qumran ...
... interpretation of the OT ; violence in the text was often taken as a metaphor for spiritual struggle . Spiritualization also ties in to the martyrological tradition . The Greek tragedians developed the idea of self - sacrifice for one's ...
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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 |