Making Sense of Atonement: What Kind of Sense?
Scholars in recent decades have attempted to rethink a theology of the atonement in light of feminist and pacifist critiques. This article addresses, not the substance of atonement, but the question of whether and how the work of Christ does or does not make sense. I take the position that it does m...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019
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Anglican theological review
Year: 2019, Volume: 101, Issue: 3, Pages: 467-481 |
IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDB Roman Catholic Church NBE Anthropology NBF Christology NBK Soteriology |
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Summary: | Scholars in recent decades have attempted to rethink a theology of the atonement in light of feminist and pacifist critiques. This article addresses, not the substance of atonement, but the question of whether and how the work of Christ does or does not make sense. I take the position that it does make sense as long as we qualify what kind of "sense" we are talking about. By developing a section of Bernard Lonergan's 1958 address entitled "The Redemption," I examine different aspects of the intelligibility that we can ascribe to a robust theology of atonement. In this way we can avoid some of the graver misunderstandings and pastoral misuses of the gospel message of redemption. |
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ISSN: | 2163-6214 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Anglican theological review
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/000332861910100305 |