01500nam a2200289 a 4500 20260119070414.0 2021-12-02 10:05:29 9781506401966 1 0 eng 220.07 S828-F51 Finlan, Stephen Author Sacrifice and atonement Psychological motives and Biblical patterns Stephen Finlan Minneapolis, U.S.A The Fortress 2016 234tr. Paperback 23cm Here, Stephen Finlan surveys psychological theories that help us to understand beliefs about 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 or avoidant attachment to the parents, and in poisonous pedagogy. The theories of Sandor Rado, Mary Ainsworth, Erik Erikson, and Alice Miller are examined, then Finlan draws conclusions about the moral responsibility of appropriating or rejecting atonement metaphors. His arguments bear careful consideration by all who live with these metaphors and their effects today. Atonement -- Biblical teaching 211001 TKH 5993 5993 0 0 0 0 TVCD TVCD 2026-01-20 0.00 0 TVCD-5993 0.00 BK