Options on Atonement in Christian Thought

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Liturgical 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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Cuprins

The Roots of Atonement
7
Pauls Cultic Metaphors
18
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
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Pasaje populare

Pagina 12 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Pagina 130 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Pagina 49 - In the days of his flesh, Jesus > offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear.
Pagina 22 - For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Pagina 130 - For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
Pagina 64 - His body and blood are really contained in the Sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine, the bread being transubstantiated into the body and the wine into the blood by the power of God...
Pagina 40 - Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training.
Pagina 46 - God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Pagina 129 - ... this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day.
Pagina 121 - Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.

Despre autor (2007)

Stephen Finlan, PhD, teaches biblical studies at Fordham University and Seton Hall University. He is also the author of The Background and Content of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors (SBL and Brill, 2004), Problems with Atonement (Liturgical Press, 2005) and co-editor of Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology (Wipf and Stock, 2006).

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