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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... 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 subject to many more purity restrictions ...
... priests a leprous disease broke out on his forehead " ( 2 Chr 26:19 ) . Even complaining can provoke the Lord to lash out and burn up some parts of the camp ( Num 11 : 1 ) . God is " a devouring fire " ( Exod 24:17 ; Deut 5:22 ) who ...
... priests conduct sacrifice and apply the sacrificial blood to the horns of the outer altar and the incense altar , expunging involuntary sin and lesser impurities . Sins committed " with a high hand " and sins committed by the priests ...
... priest Phinehas , who drove his spear through a Hebrew man and a Midianite woman while they were in the act of lovemaking . Yhwh was prepared to destroy the whole nation until the priestly killer " made atonement for the Israelites ...
... priests had assimilated the ideas of the prophets . Completely different from these other sacrifices , and having nothing to do with cleansing , forgiveness , or reparation , was the Passover sacri- fice . The reiterated Passover was ...
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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 |