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Sacrifice and Atonement

Psychological Motives and Biblical Patterns

by Stephen Finlan

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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For those seeking deeper understanding of atonement

Unpacks psychological motives behind sacrificial beliefs

You will gain clarity on guilt and divine favour concepts

Explore the complex relationship between sacrifice and atonement in this insightful book by Stephen Finlan.

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Beneath the commonplace affirmation that Jesus "paid for our sins" lie depths of implication: did God demand a blood sacrifice to assuage divine anger? ls sacrifice (consciously or unconsciously) intended to induce the deity to show favour? What underlies the various metaphors for atonement used in the Bible? Here, Stephen Finlan surveys psychological theories that help us to understand beliefs about sacrifice and atonement and what they may reveal about patterns of injury, guilt, shame, and appeasement. Early chapters examine the language in both testaments of purity and the "scapegoat," and of payment, obligation, reciprocity, and redemption. Later chapters review theories of the origins of atonement thinking in fear and traumatic childhood experience, in ambivalent or avoidant attachment to the parents, and in "poisonous pedagogy." The theories of Sandor Rado, Mary Ainsworth, Erik Erikson, and Alice Miller are examined, then Finlan draws conclusions about the moral responsibility of appropriating or rejecting atonement metapors and their effects today.
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  • Author

    Stephen Finlan

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    May 2016

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781506401966

  • ISBN-10

    1506401961

  • Eden Code

    4456542

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