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This collection of essays edited by Colin Gunton provides a broad treatment of the theological doctrine of reconciliation. The papers are designed to present a broad treatment of the subject, including contributions on scripture, ethics and the church, as well as a bearing of other theological topics—Trinity, Christology—on the central question. There is an introduction by the editor, who also...

COLIN E. GUNTON Reconciliation is one of the few words deriving from the Christian theological tradition to remain in vogue in the secularized vocabulary of modern politics. The aftermath of apartheid in South Africa and the continuing, albeit apparently declining, unrest in Northern Ireland render it a word constantly on the lips of those for whom an explicitly theological construction of its meaning would be out of the question. And yet it is in theology that it took its rise, and
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