Boersma, Hans,  1961- <br/><br/>
Violence, hospitality, and the cross :  reappropriating the atonement tradition / 
Hans Boersma. 
 - Grand Rapids, Mich. :  Baker Academic,  c2004. 
 - 288 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-275) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>PART 1. The divine face of hospitality. 1. The possibility of hospitality -- 2. Limited hospitality : election and violence in eternity -- 3. Preferential hospitality : election and violence in history -- PART 2. The cruciform face of hospitality. 4. Atonement, metaphors, and models -- 5. Modeling hospitality : atonement as moral influence -- 6. Atonement and mimetic violence -- 7. Hospitality, punishment, and the atonement -- 8. Atonement, violence, and victory -- PART 3. The public face of hospitality. 9. The church as the community of hospitality -- 10. Public justice and the hospitality of liberation -- Epilogue. The end of violence : eschatology and deification. 
<br/><br/> "In this study, Hans Boersma proposes an understanding of the atonement that is sensitive to both the Christian tradition and postmodern critiques of that tradition."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801027208 0801027209 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004007697 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Atonement<br/>Hospitality--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT265.3  / .B64 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>232/.3