Interpretation, October 1st, 2006
Problems With Atonement By Stephen Finlan Liturgical, Collegeville, 2005. 124 pp. $15.95. ISBN 0-8146-5220-4.
IN THIS CHALLENGING and enlightening book, Stephen Finlan suggests that we have misunderstood the nature of God's salvation by allowing primitive ideas about sacrifice to inform our doctrine of the atonement, and by making atonement the central doctrine of the Christian faith. Finlan insists that the unique and central doctrine of the Christian faith is not the atonement, but rather, the incarnation.
The idea of sacrifice has its roots in primitive notions of providing food for the g...
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