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God's Just Vengeance : Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation (Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion)
God's Just Vengeance Crime Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation - Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion
Author: Timothy Gorringe
This book examines the relationship between the theologies of atonement and penal strategies. Christian theology was potent in Western society until the nineteenth century, and the so-called "satisfaction theory" of the atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Gorringe argues that atonement theology created a structure of affect tha...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521553018
ISBN-10: 0521553016
Publication Date: 3/29/1996
Pages: 294
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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