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God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation

Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation [Paperback]

by Timothy Gorringe (University of Exeter)

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      Timothy Gorringe (University of Exeter)

    • Book Format

      paperback

    • Publisher

      Cambridge University Press

    • Published

      March 1996

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      God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation

      Today's Price £30.54



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      This book examines the relationship between the theologies of atonement and penal strategies. Christian theology was potent in Western society until the nineteenth century, and the so-called 'satisfaction theory' of atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Drawing on the work of Norbert Elias and David Garland, the author argues that atonement theology created a structure of affect which favoured retributive policies. He ranges freely between Old Testament texts, St Anselm, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social history, to show the integral connection between sin and crime, the legal and the moral. The question arises if the preaching of the cross not only desensitised us to judicial violence but even lent it sanction. The last two chapters review theory and practice in the twentieth century, and Timothy Gorringe makes concrete proposals for both theology and criminal and societal violence.

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      • Author

        Timothy Gorringe (University of Exeter)

      • Book Format

        paperback

      • Publisher

        Cambridge University Press

      • Published

        March 1996

      • Editor

        Duncan B. Forrester;Alistair Kee

      • Weight

        400g

      • Page Count

        296

      • Dimensions

        138 x 214 x 18 mm

      • ISBN

        9780521557627

      • ISBN-10

        0521557623

      • Eden Code

        11337

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      • Author/Creator: Timothy Gorringe (University of Exeter)

      • ISBN: 9780521557627

      • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

      • Release Date: March 1996

      • Weight: 400g

      • Dimensions: 138 x 214 x 18 mm

      • Eden Code: 11337


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