Must there be scapegoats?: violence and redemption in the Bible

"Schwager reverses three millennia of conventional understanding of the Bible as he argues that the God of the Old Testament is not a God of violence; the Jesus' sacrifice is not an act of appeasement of the Father; and that the suffering and death of an infinite victim is not compensation...

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Main Author: Schwager, Raymund 1935-2004 (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: Leominster Gracewing 2000
New York, NY Crossroad Publishing 2000
In:Year: 2000
Edition:[2nd ed.]
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Violence
Further subjects:B Violence Biblical teaching
B Violence ; Biblical teaching
B Redemption ; Biblical teaching
B Jesus Christ
B Redemption Biblical teaching