01581nam a2200301 a 450000500170000000800200001702000180003704000060005504100100006108200110007108200130008210000200009510000110011524500280012624500480015424500190020226000230022126000170024426000090026130000110027030000140028130000090029552008410030465000350114595700150118099900150119595200690121020260119070414.02021-12-02 10:05:29  a9781506401966  a1  a0 eng  a220.07  bS828-F51  aFinlan, Stephen  eAuthor  aSacrifice and atonement  bPsychological motives and Biblical patterns  cStephen Finlan  aMinneapolis, U.S.A  bThe Fortress  c2016  a234tr.  bPaperback  c23cm  aHere, 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.  aAtonement -- Biblical teaching  a211001 TKH  c5993d5993  00104070aTVCDbTVCDd2026-01-20g0.00l0pTVCD-5993v0.00yBK