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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...

So far, then, there does appear to be biblical support for the general position that Aulén is advocating. It is possible to claim that in some authors the life and death of Jesus is understood as a victory. They are using a metaphor or set of metaphors—language drawn from one field of human activity—in order to expound the significance of the one about whom they are writing. There are, however, distinctions to he made that appear to have been overlooked by Aulén. In particular, there are further
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