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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... understanding a supposed divine law of justice that demanded a verdict but was so unjust as to allow the substitution of an innocent victim in place of the guilty . Even more difficult to accept is the notion of God ( or " justice ...
... understanding of God grow , and can we gain new insight into the relevant biblical passages by revisiting them ? How did atonement ideas come to play such an important role , and what do we make of them now ? These are questions I will ...
... understanding in parts of Genesis ( J , the Yahwist author ) , Samuel , and Kings . But the Pentateuchal author / redactor called " P " ( for priestly ) does not care for the idea of sacrifice as food payment . In its place P develops a ...
... understanding , is more correctly the Day of Purification.10 Milgrom has shown that the principal Hebrew sacrifices are a matter of Temple purification , not of substitutionary death . It is a Christianizing distortion to say that the ...
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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 |