‘He laid His hand upon both’: Self-punishment, vicarious punishment and Gregory's spirituality of the cross in the Moralia in Job

Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job has been said to mark a transitional phase in the development of atonement doctrine. I argue that the Moralia cohesively portrays Christ's redemptive work as achieving something in two directions: towards God, a vicarious payment of humanity's debt o...

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Main Author: Underhill, Tom (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2024
In: Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 77, Issue: 4, Pages: 362-374
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gregor, I., Pope 542-604, Moralia in Job / Fine / Atonement / Moral theology
IxTheo Classification:KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages
KCB Papacy
NBE Anthropology
NCB Personal ethics
Further subjects:B Punishment
B Occupation
B Atonement
B Cross
B Gregory the Great
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Summary:Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job has been said to mark a transitional phase in the development of atonement doctrine. I argue that the Moralia cohesively portrays Christ's redemptive work as achieving something in two directions: towards God, a vicarious payment of humanity's debt of punishment; towards humanity, an efficaciously convicting and restorative example. This sustains a spirituality in which exacting and self-denying moral effort rests on freedom from judgement and on the death accomplished by the Mediator. Engaging the Moralia in this manner illuminates patristic exegetical sensibilities and proves instructive about how the fathers fit into later taxonomies of atonement models.
ISSN:1475-3065
Contains:Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0036930624000565

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