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Sacrifice and atonement : psychological motives and Biblical patterns /

Stephen Finlan surveys sacrifice and atonement and what they may reveal about patterns of injury, guilt, shame, and appeasement. Early chapters examine the language in both testaments of purity and the "scapegoat," and of payment, obligation, reciprocity, and redemption. Later chapters rev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Finlan, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fortress Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Stephen Finlan surveys sacrifice and atonement and what they may reveal about patterns of injury, guilt, shame, and appeasement. Early chapters examine the language in both testaments of purity and the "scapegoat," and of payment, obligation, reciprocity, and redemption. Later chapters review theories of the origins of atonement thinking in fear and traumatic childhood experience, in ambivalent attachment, and in "poisonous pedagogy." The theories of Sandor Rado, Erik Erikson, and Alice Miller are examined, then Finlan draws conclusions about the moral appropriation or rejection of atonement m.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages)
ISBN:9781506401973
150640197X