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TitleAtonement and violence : A Theological conversation / Edited by John Sanders
AuthorSanders, John.
Call No232.3 SAN
CollectionNon Fiction
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International Standard Book Number 0687342945
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 232.3 SAN
Personal Name Sanders, John.
Title Statement Atonement and violence : A Theological conversation / Edited by John Sanders
Imprint Nashville, Tennessee : Abingdon, 2006.
Physical Description 170p.
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
Summary, Etc. "Recent years have witnessed a series of books, articles, and lectures raising serious questions about the Christian doctrine of the Atonement. While coming from a variety of sources, the questions usually center around the central issue of atonement and violence. Doesn't the Atonement promote the idea of violence on the part of God? If so, isn't such violence incompatible with a God of love? Doesn't this doctrine send the wrong signal, excusing and perhaps even promoting such things as child abuse? Is it time to abandon what has become an outmoded and harmful doctrine? The authors of this book claim that to abandon the Christian doctrine of the Atonement is to abandon the central witness of the gospel, for atonement speaks of nothing less than God's reconciliation of the world in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, to believe in the atoning death of Jesus Christ does not mean that one believes that God has engaged in cosmic child abuse. Drawing on the classical theories of the Atonement, engaging in creative theological construction, they present set of cogent, cohesive alternatives to either rejecting the doctrine out of hand, or uncritically accepting it."--Publisher's website.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term VIOLENCE - RELIGIOUS ASPECTS - CHRISTIANITY.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term JESUS CHRIST - CRUCIFIXION.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term SACRIFICE - CHRISTIANITY.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term NON-VIOLENCE - RELIGIOUS ASPECTS - CHRISTIANITY.