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Violence, hospitality, and the cross : reappropriating the atonement tradition / Hans Boersma.

By: Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2004.Description: 288 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780801027208
  • 0801027209
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 232/.3 22
LOC classification:
  • BT265.3 .B64 2004
Contents:
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.
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-275) and indexes.

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.

"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.

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