Is the atonement necessary or fitting?
In her impressive Atonement, Eleonore Stump claims that her novel Marian theory of the atonement meets a desideratum for a successful theory that Aquinas's theory does not, namely, showing that Christ's passion and death are essential to the solution to the problem of human sin. Here I sug...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2021]
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| In: |
Religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 148-156 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Stump, Eleonore 1947-, Atonement
/ Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Jesus Christus
/ Crucifixion
/ Forgiveness of sins (motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NBF Christology NBJ Mariology NBK Soteriology |
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| Summary: | In her impressive Atonement, Eleonore Stump claims that her novel Marian theory of the atonement meets a desideratum for a successful theory that Aquinas's theory does not, namely, showing that Christ's passion and death are essential to the solution to the problem of human sin. Here I suggest reasons to side with Aquinas, who says that Christ's suffering and death are not necessary, but merely a fitting way of solving the problem. If the fittingness of Christ's passion and death is a good enough justification for it, we lose a motivation for adopting the Marian theory over the Thomistic one. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Atonement (2021)"
Kritik in "Atonement (2021)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412519000507 |
