Atonement and Violence A Theological Conversation

Name: Atonement and Violence A Theological Conversation
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ISBN: 9780687342945

ISBN-10: 0687342945

ISBN-13: 9780687342945

Edition: 2006

Authors: Hans Boersma, John Sanders, T. Scott Daniels

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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…

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List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 11/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 170
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.06" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

John Saunders is head of film studies at Bedford Modern School, UK, and the author of Studying Disaster Movies.



Contributors


Introduction



Narrative Christus Victor: The Answer to Anselmian Atonement Violence



Responses


Hans Boersma


Thomas Finger


T. Scott Daniels



Violence, the Cross, and Divine Intentionality: A Modified Reformed View



Responses


J. Denny Weaver


Thomas Finger


T. Scott Daniels



Christus Victor as Nonviolent Atonement



Responses


J. Denny Weaver


Hans Boersma


T. Scott Daniels



Passing the Peace: Worship That Shapes Nonsubstitutionary Convictions



Responses


J. Denny Weaver


Hans Boersma


Thomas Finger


Bibliography


Subject Index


Scripture Index