"Engages systematic theology with pastoral concerns to expand our understanding of Christ's sacrifice so that persons with disabilities are more integrally included in our conceptions of soteriology and ecclesiology, especially liturgy"--
The atonement--where God in Jesus Christ addresses sin and the whole of the human predicament--lies at the heart of Christian faith and life. Its saving power is for all people, and yet a deep hesitancy has prevented meaningful discussion of the cross' relevance for people with …
After retracing the genesis of the politics of punishment and pardon after 1945 and analyzing the construction of the idea of transitional justice and its rise in power, three case studies are presented putting transitional justice to the test. Examined are the limits, contradic…
The cross is the defining symbol of the Christian faith. Yet two thousand years of Western art and architecture and culture have blinded us to what was most obvious to first-century eyes-- the utter scandal of the cross. The Roman cross was first and foremost an instrument of cr…
In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's Gym is about divinity, phy…
"The doctrine of the Atonement is the distinctive doctrine of Christianity. Over the course of many centuries of reflection, highly diverse interpretations of the doctrine have been proposed. In the context of this history of interpretation, Eleonore Stump considers the doctrine…
The concept of the atonement is one of the defining doctrine of Christianity. Over the course of many centuries, theologians, church forefathers, philosophers and more have proposed a huge expanse of interpretations of Christ's sacrifice for humanity, each different to the next.…