To suppose that God has a providential plan based on a special
covenant with Israel and realised in the atonement presents us with a
moral problem. In Ruin and Restoration David Martin sketches a radical
naturalistic account of the atonement based on the innocent paying for
the sins of the guilty through ordinary social processes. An exercise
in socio-theology, the book reflects on the contrast between ’the
world’ governed by the dynamic of violence as analysed by the social
sciences, including international relations, and the emergence in
Christianity (and Buddhism) of a non-violent alternative. A
’governing essay’ fuses frameworks drawn from Reinhold Niebuhr,
Karl Jaspers, Ernst Troeltsch and Max Weber and explores the relation
between the cultural sciences, especially sociology, and theology
treated as another but very distinctive cultural science. Six
commentaries then deal with the atonement in detail; with the nature
of Christian language and grammar, and with its characteristic
mutations due to necessary compromises with ’the world’; with sex
and violence; and with the liturgy as a concentrated mode of
reconciliation.
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ISBN
9781317061021
Publisert
2018
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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