In Delivered from the Elements of the World Peter Leithart reframes Anselm's question, ‚Why the God Man?‘ Instead he asks, ‚How can the death and resurrection of a Jewish rabbi of the first century . . . be the decisive event in the history of humanity, the hinge and crux and crossroads for everything?‘ With the question reframed for the wide screen, Leithart pursues the cultural and public settings and consequences of the cross and resurrection. He writes, ‚I hope to show that atonement theology must be social theory if it is going to have any coherence, relevance or comprehensibility at all.’There are no small thoughts or cramped plot lines in this vision of the deep-down things of cross and culture. While much is recognizable as biblical theology projected along Pauline vectors, Leithart marshals a stunning array of discourse to crack open one of the big questions of Christian theology. This is a book on the atonement that eludes conventional categories, prods our theological imaginations and is sure to spark conversation and debate.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
1. Atonement as Social Theory
Part I: Under the Elements of the World
2. The Physics of the Old Creation
3. Among Gentiles: An Ancient Jewish Travelogue
4. Flesh
5. What Torah Does
Part II: Good News of God’s Justice
6. The Justice of God
7. The Faith of Jesus Christ
Part III: Justification
8. Justified by the Faith of Jesus
9. Justified from the Elements
Part IV: Contributions to a Theology of Mission
10. In Ranks with the Spirit
11. Outside the Christian Era
12. Galatian Church, Galatian Age
13. Cur Deus Homo?
Appendix 1: The Metaphysics of Atonement: Natural and Supernatural
Appendix 2: Nature, the Supernatural and Justification
Appendix 3: Atonement by Deliverdict: Romans
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index
Über den Autor
Peter J. Leithart (Ph D, University of Cambridge) is president of Theopolis Institute and an adjunct senior fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. He is the author of many books including Defending Constantine,
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