Atonement and Violence: A Theological Conversation by Hans Boersma [Paperback]

Description: 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.

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EAN: 9780687342945

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Book Title: Atonement and Violence : a Theological Conversation

Number of Pages: 170 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Item Height: 0.5 in

Publication Year: 2006

Topic: Theology, Christian Theology / Soteriology, Christian Theology / Christology, Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, General, Political Ideologies / General, Sociology of Religion

Genre: Religion, Political Science, Social Science

Item Weight: 11.4 Oz

Author: Hans Boersma, T. Scott Daniels

Item Length: 9.1 in

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback