Redeeming Redemption: Violence, Desecration, and Atonement

Transgression and Atonement

This paper presents an approach to modeling social transgressions in agent based systems. The approach is intended to be abstract enough that it may be used with many different theories of transgression, apology, forgiveness, etc. We discuss an implementation of this approach in PMFserv, an agent based socio-cognitive modeling framework.

Beyond sacrifice: Milton and the atonement

Atonement: the Rite of Healing

There has recently been a number of books on the Christian understanding of atonement. What has been fascinating for me is the extent to which these books do, or more often do not, use the Old Testament material on atonement as the basis for what they have to say. The New Testament speaks in a variety of ways about atonement, and this has become the centre of Christian dogmatics; but this ‘aton...

Redeeming Valleys and Ridges for Line-Drawing

This paper presents a new method of line drawing based on the hypothesis that artists draw the lines that decompose the object into parts, and the lines that help convey the shapes of the parts. But they draw these lines differently depending on the viewpoint. Contours are the most obvious part-decomposing lines. Valley lines, which typically delimit convex parts, are also part-decomposing line...

Recovery, Redemption, and Extreme Programming

requirements—gathered by the previous con-sultancy—that had outlived their build-by date. On the other side (the hard place), was a client that, acknowledging that it had switched horses midstream, was willing to scale back on functionality but refused to budge on delivery date. In short, Thought-Works found itself with a mere two months to both turn the project around and deliver a business-re...