Instead of Atonement
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Instead of Atonement

The Bibleā€™s Salvation Story and Our Hope for Wholeness

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Instead of Atonement

The Bibleā€™s Salvation Story and Our Hope for Wholeness

About this book

Do atonement theologies that focus on Jesus' death underwrite human violence? If so, we do well to rethink beliefs that this death is necessary to bring salvation. Focusing on the Bible's salvation story, Instead of Atonement argues for a logic of mercy to replace Christianity's traditional logic of retribution. The book traces the Bible's main salvation story through God's liberating acts, the testimony of the prophets, and Jesus's life and teaching. It then takes a closer look at Jesus's death and argues that his death gains its meaning when it exposes violence in the cultural, religious, and political Powers. God's raising of Jesus completes the story and vindicates Jesus's life and teaching. The book also examines the understandings of salvation in Romans and Revelation that reinforce the message that salvation is a gift of God and that Jesus's "work" has to do with his faithful life, his resistance to the Powers, and God's vindication of him through resurrection. The book concludes that the "Bible's salvation story" provides a different way, instead of atonement, to understand salvation. In turn, this biblical understanding gives us today theological resources for a mercy-oriented approach to responding to wrongdoing, one that follows God's own model.

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Information

Publisher
Cascade Books
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781620325025
9781498215909
eBook ISBN
9781621895794
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Theology

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter 1: Introduction: ā€œGospel as Bad Newsā€?
  4. Part 1: The Bibleā€™s Salvation Story
  5. Chapter 2: Salvation in the Old Testament
  6. Chapter 3: Guardians for the Way of Wholeness
  7. Chapter 4: Jesusā€™s Teaching on Salvation
  8. Part 2: Jesusā€™s Death and Salvation
  9. Chapter 5: The Death of Jesus
  10. Chapter 6: Jesusā€™s Death and the Powers
  11. Chapter 7: Jesusā€™s Death and the Powers
  12. Chapter 8: Jesusā€™s Death and the Powers
  13. Chapter 9: Jesus Brings Salvation
  14. Chapter 10: Godā€™s Saving Justice
  15. Chapter 11: Salvation through Revelation
  16. Chapter 12: Conclusion: Is There an Atonement Model in this Story?
  17. Bibliography

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