Delivered from the elements of the world :
Physical details: 368 pages ; 23 cm ISBN:9780830851263; 0830851267.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Non-Fiction
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Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie | 234.5 LEI (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | APA006426 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Atonement as social theory -- Under the elements of the world -- The physics of the old creation -- Among Gentiles: an ancient Jewish travelogue -- Flesh -- What Torah does -- Good news of God's justice -- The justice of God -- The faith of Jesus Christ -- Justification -- Justified by the faith of Jesus -- Justified from the elements -- Contributions to a theology of mission -- In ranks with the spirit -- Outside the Christian era -- Galatian church, Galatian age -- Cur Deus Homo? -- The metaphysics of atonement: natural and supernatural -- Nature, the supernatural and justification -- Atonement by deliverdict: Romans.
In Delivered from the Elements of the World Peter Leithart reframes Anselm's question, "Why the God Man?" Instead he asks, "How can the death and resurrection of a Jewish rabbi of the first century ... be the decisive event in the history of humanity, the hinge and crux and crossroads for everything?" With the question reframed for the wide screen, Leithart pursues the cultural and public settings and consequences of the cross and resurrection. He writes, "I hope to show that atonement theology must be social theory if it is going to have any coherence, relevance or comprehensibility at all." There are no small thoughts or cramped plot lines in this vision of the deep-down things of cross and culture. While much is recognizable as biblical theology projected along Pauline vectors, Leithart marshals a stunning array of discourse to crack open one of the big questions of Christian theology. This is a book on the atonement that eludes conventional categories, prods our theological imaginations and is sure to spark conversation and debate.
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