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...

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.

Abstract Doctrines of the atonement have tended either to elevate status one biblical metaphor or gather together various metaphors into a unified concept chorus equal metaphors. The purpose this article is shed light on how function, using by way reference contrasting interpretations Charles Hodge and Joel Green, who tend towards opposing theories language based naïve realism idealism respecti...

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the question of authenticity in speech acts political atonement from a critical discourse analysis perspective. The objective is to study how strategies re-elaboration past employed discourses may contribute assess atonement. tackles following research question: do influence act atonement? 2015 statement by Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. argues that Japan...

Asteady debate over the meaning of the death of Jesus in Luke-Acts runs through the heart of scholarly attention to Lukan theology. Alongside the growing recognition of Luke as a theologian in his own right, the uniqueness of his interpretation of the cross over against other biblical authors has been regularly emphasized. In this regard, it has become commonplace to affirm Luke attaches no dir...

Contemporary philosophy of religion and analytic theology has recently experienced a revival regarding the nature Christian Atonement. The Kaleidoscope theory atonement says that major theories such as Christus Victor, Satisfaction, Penal Substitution, Moral Exemplar each capture an important aspect significance atonement. When taken together, they offer fuller picture than do individual theori...