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Informationen zum Autor Vernon White is visiting professor in the department of Theology & Religious Studies at King's College, London, and Senior Fellow of the Westminster Abbey Institute. He is the author of a number of books of moral and philosophical theology, most recently Purpose and Providence (2015/2018). Klappentext In this book Vernon White sets out to address the crisis of credibility that increasingly has affected traditional claims made for the Atonement. Zusammenfassung In this book Vernon White sets out to address the crisis of credibility that increasingly has affected traditional claims made for the Atonement! and attempts to explain how the life! death! and resurrection of Jesus Christ can have a universal saving significance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The claim; 2. On having lived too long and seen too much; 3. The work of Christ (On trying to conceive how 'things are not as they were'); 4. Two recent contributions; 5. Creating an atonement model; 6. The person of Christ (On trying to conceive how the Word became Flesh); 7. A moral demand: conditions for real reconciliation; 8. Anthropocentricity, imperialism and evangelism: an ethical postscript; Notes; Bibliography.
