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To take a step back once more, when people write about “atonement theology,” the tendency has been to go to Paul and Hebrews and to come to the gospels only for those detached phrases that will support (or so it seems) the kind of “theological” construct that has already been culled from Paul.
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved
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Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR))
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The Seminar announced to its public that the real Jesus was innocent of the wicked apocalypticism with which so many Christians, not least in the conservative American churches against which American academics react so strongly, had for so long associated him.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
Rene Girard made a stellar career out of locking on to a critical question that usually gets swept under the rug—Why did every single ancient civilization practice human sacrifice, and why did the Old World stop in the 1st millennium BC? His answers were kind of nonsense, but the underlying historical observation that human sacrifice is the... See more
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