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The Actuality of Atonement: A Study of Metaphor, Rationality and the Christian Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

In a masterly examination of both the Christian doctrine of Atonement and the nature and working of theological language, Professor Gunton reassesses the doctrine and the language in which it is expressed in the light of modern scholarly developments. He explains how the traditional metaphors of Atonement, drawn from the battlefield, the altar and the law courts, all express something of the...

teaching, for example, the classical christological formulations. The shift that he makes in his understanding of theology from the exposition of doctrine to the articulation of the content of experience in many respects concedes the case to the rationalist critique, particularly in its acceptance of the Kantian teaching that we can know nothing of the world and God as they are in themselves. Such a shift makes it inevitable that the content of Christian teaching will be, if not reduced to something
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