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Paperback God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation Book

ISBN: 0521557623

ISBN13: 9780521557627

God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion Series)

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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 that favored retributive policies. He reviews theory and practice in the twentieth century, and makes concrete...

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