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Ruin and Restoration - On Violence, Liturgy and Reconciliation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Ruin and Restoration - On Violence, Liturgy and Reconciliation (Hardcover, New Ed)
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To suppose that God has a providential plan based on a special
covenant with Israel and realised in the atonement presents us with
a moral problem. In Ruin and Restoration David Martin sketches a
radical naturalistic account of the atonement based on the innocent
paying for the sins of the guilty through ordinary social
processes. An exercise in socio-theology, the book reflects on the
contrast between 'the world' governed by the dynamic of violence as
analysed by the social sciences, including international relations,
and the emergence in Christianity (and Buddhism) of a non-violent
alternative. A 'governing essay' fuses frameworks drawn from
Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Jaspers, Ernst Troeltsch and Max Weber and
explores the relation between the cultural sciences, especially
sociology, and theology treated as another but very distinctive
cultural science. Six commentaries then deal with the atonement in
detail; with the nature of Christian language and grammar, and with
its characteristic mutations due to necessary compromises with 'the
world'; with sex and violence; and with the liturgy as a
concentrated mode of reconciliation.
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