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035 _a(OCoLC)951594908
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_cMdBmJHUP
050 4 _aBT265.3
_b.F567 2016
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100 1 _aFinlan, Stephen,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aSacrifice and atonement
_h[electronic resource] :
_bpsychological motives and biblical patterns /
_cStephen Finlan.
260 _aBaltimore, Maryland :
_bProject Muse,
_c2016
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
260 _aMinneapolis [Minnesota] :
_bFortress Press,
_c[2016]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (1 PDF (xx, 234 pages))
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and indexes.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 1. Atonement as purification -- 2. Atonement as compensation or reciprocity -- 3. Attachment, cruelty, and coping -- 4. Rescue and disgust in Paul -- 5. Answers to atonement -- 6. Fear and loathing in the Epistle to the Hebrews -- 7. Atonement played out -- Conclusion.
520 _aBeneath the commonplace affirmation that Jesus "paid for our sins" lie depths of implication: did God demand a blood sacrifice to assuage divine anger? Is sacrifice (consciously or unconsciously) intended to induce the deity to show favor? What underlies the various metaphors for atonement used in the Bible? Here, Stephen Finlan surveys psychological theories that help us to understand beliefs about sacrifice and atonement and what they may reveal about patterns of injury, guilt, shame, and appeasement. Early chapters examine the language in both testaments of purity and the "scapegoat,", and of payment, obligation, reciprocity, and redemption. Later chapters review theories of the origins of atonement thinking in fear and traumatic childhood experience, in ambivalent or avoidant attachment to the parents, and in "poisonous pedagogy." The theories of Sandor Rado, Mary Ainsworth, Erik Erikson, and Alice Miller are examined, then Finlan draws conclusions about the moral responsibility of appropriating or rejecting atonement metaphors. His arguments bear careful consideration by all who live with these metaphors and their effects today.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aSacrifice
_xBiblical teaching.
650 0 _aSacrifice
_xPsychology.
650 0 _aSacrifice.
650 0 _aAtonement
_xBiblical teaching.
650 0 _aAtonement
_xPsychology.
650 0 _aAtonement.
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse,
_edistributor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z1506401961
_z9781506401966
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/46179/
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Philosophy and Religion
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
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