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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... 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 sin ...
... practices in Judaism , and then move on to the apostle Paul , who constructed his atonement metaphors from ritual and social practices in Jewish and Gentile societies . Later 1 will examine a number of particular options on atonement ...
... Practice [ Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1925 ] 77 ) . 5 Frances M. Young , The Use of Sacrificial Ideas in Greek Christian Writers from the New Testament to John Chrysostom . Patristic Monograph Series 2 ( Eugene , OR : Wipf & Stock ...
... practice . H ( for " Holiness Code " ) com- bines these views ( see below ) . The D ( Deuteronomist ) author is mainly concerned with the question of covenant loyalty , caring little about cultic metaphysics as long as there is only one ...
... practice and a vivid image during Paul's time , even if its actual practice was disappearing . 1.4 Internalization or Spiritualization In cultures from Asia to Europe to Africa there is a progressive and observable development away from ...
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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 |