Timothy J. Gorringe

God's Just Vengeance

Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation
Herausgeber: Forrester, Duncan; Kee, Alistair

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Christian theology has been used to justify strict punishment of criminals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780521553018
• ISBN-10: 0521553016
• Artikelnr.: 21991878

Autorenporträt

Timothy J. Gorringe is Emeritus Professor of Theology at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. He is the author of many books including Karl Barth: Against Hegemony (1999), A Theology of the Built Environment (2004), and The Common Good and the Global Emergency (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Religion and retribution
Part I. The Cultural Formation of Atonement: Biblical Sources: 2. Blood which makes atonement
3. Accounting for the cross
Part II. Making Satisfaction: Atonement and Penalty 1090-1890: 4. The ladder of all high designs
5. The wounds of Christ
6. Three angry letters in a book
7. The moral government of the universe
8. The age of atonement
Part III. Contemporary Directions in Atonement and Penal Theory: 9. The gospel and retribution
10. Forgiveness, crime and community.