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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... Sacrifice 8 A Food Payment 8 Cleansing 10 Payment and Aversion 11 1.3 The Scapegoat Ritual 13 1.4 Internalization or Spiritualization 14 1.5 Cultic Labels for Noble Death 15 Chapter 2 : Paul's Cultic Metaphors 18 2.1 Atonement in Romans ...
... sacrifice , scapegoat , redemption , justification , reconcili- ation , and adoption . I pause to define just one of these terms now . " Re- demption " 2 ( Greek apolytrõsis in Rom 3:24 ; 8:23 ; 1 Cor 1:30 ; Col 1:14 ) refers 1 " Cult ...
... sacrifice , scape- goat , and redemption are changed when they are applied to Jesus ' death ; he was not literally a sacrificial animal , a banished goat , or a sum of money : these are metaphors . Paul and his audience share the belief ...
... sacrifice , a punishment - bearing , for " Jesus took the hit for me " ; " Jesus bled and died for me " ; " that should have been me up on the cross . " Many theologians , ancient and contemporary , have not been happy with expressions ...
... Sacrifice A Food Payment Since atonement builds on sacrificial theology , one of the roots of atonement lies in the ancient idea of actually feeding the god with the smoke of the burning animal , strongly attested in the first four ...
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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 |