God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation
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 the atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Gorringe argues that atonement theology created a structure of affect that favored retributive policies. He reviews theory and practice in the twentieth century, and makes concrete proposals for both theology and criminal and societal violence.
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God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation
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 the atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Gorringe argues that atonement theology created a structure of affect that favored retributive policies. He reviews theory and practice in the twentieth century, and makes concrete proposals for both theology and criminal and societal violence.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521557627 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 03/14/1996 |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion , #9 |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 296 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.71(d) |
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