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In recent decades, there has been a resurgent interest among Protestant theologians in the so-called Christus Victor theory of the atonement. Firmly grounded in patristic thought (esp.
Sergey Koryakin
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Closed Atonement and Open Forgiveness: Reconciliation and the Meaning of Jesus’ Death
In this article, I argue that atonement and forgiveness embody fundamentally different logics of reconciliation—one a closed moral economy of compensation and equivalence and the other a relational and non-economic logic of restoration.
Douglas V. Porpora
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Penal Substitution in the Construction of British Evangelical Identity: Controversies in the Doctrine of the Atonement in the Mid-2000s [PDF]
This thesis examines the controversy surrounding the doctrine of the atonement and penal substitution which occurred within British evangelicalism as a result of the publication of Steve Chalke and Alan Mann‘s book The Lost Message of Jesus (2003).
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Beelde vir die kruis van Christus in die vierde en vyfde eeu
Images of Christ’s cross in the 4th and 5th centuries The Church Fathers did not have a common theory or system of atonement. Therefore, if one wants to appreciate what they had to say about atonement, one needs to study the rich images that pervade ...
H.F. Stander
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Atoning for Nostalgia in Ian McEwan’s Atonement
Many critics have pointed out the ambiguities of Atonement, a postmodernist anti-nostalgic novel that brings to the fore all the traditional topoi of Englishness in order better to denounce them as sham. In Atonement, the nostalgic longing is linked to the desire of Briony (the protagonist/narrator) for a return to a state of innocence which, I will ...
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How would punishment work in an ideal community, one in which the members of the community identify with one another? In this article, Professor Stephen Garvey argues that punishment in such a community would be understood as a form of secular penance ...
Garvey, Stephen P.
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There was, however, one festival, which clearly and definitely symbolized the Messiah and his work. This was the Day of Atonement. It fore-shadowed the Messiah in many ways, but especially in his office as high-priest, his mediation and atonement by ...
Albrecht, Philip
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Beyond Repair? Ruins and Rubble in Ian McEwan’s Atonement
In his representation of England in the 1930s and of the Second World War, McEwan’s Atonement stages shattered worlds, both public and private, from derelict marriages and ruined relationships to the rubble of the Dunkirk retreat and the soldiers ...
Sylvie Maurel
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This essay examines Herman Bavinck’s doctrine of atonement within his treatment of Christ’s humiliation in volume three of his Reformed Dogmatics. Through an investigation of Bavinck’s critiques of key nineteenth century theologians and of Bavinck’s own ...
Crosby Sarah Killam
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