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020			_a9781506401966
040			_a1
041			_a0 eng
082			_a220.07
082			_bS828-F51
100			_aFinlan, Stephen
100			_eAuthor
245			_aSacrifice and atonement
245			_bPsychological motives and Biblical patterns
245			_cStephen Finlan
260			_aMinneapolis, U.S.A
260			_bThe Fortress
260			_c2016
300			_a234tr.
300			_bPaperback
300			_c23cm
520			_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.
650			_aAtonement -- Biblical teaching
957			_a211001 TKH
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